May 7

Will a nap help?

This is the third in the series of MECFS posts. I am only writing them every other day because this illness requires a day in between days. The question is: if you are tired, will a nap help? And the poem is the answer to that question.

Will a nap help?

Will a nap help?
Short answer
No

Healthy, tired people take naps
A twenty minute nap
To recharge the batteries
Will do it, and they’re ready
To go again.

Will a nap help?
You need a longer answer?
Still no, because
A body with ME
Does not respond
Like a healthy body
These bodies hold a grudge
And only charge partially
And if they are run too low
You owe them double
An overnight sleep
Even the dreamiest of nights
Will only top up
This broken battery to sixty
Forty percent short of full
More often less than that
That little nap might give an extra five
But not enough to speak of

Will a nap help?
No.

Will a nap help? Nope!