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The Drake Passage

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I’m on a ship, sailing over rough seas
A cruise to Antarctica, the Drake Passage, beating my body and brain.
Waves recurrently strike me.

Pain hits and calms, only to hit again.
I feel like I’m falling.
The bed beneath me and four walls surrounding, moving.
Crash, crash, crash.

My world rocks with each wave
Consciousness waxes and wanes

The waves are beating me.
Crashing hard with force that makes it feel like my brain will explode.
I don’t need to get on a cruise across the Drake Passage,
I experience the passage in my mind.

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  • A white person with dark, curly hair smiling at the camera with her mouth closed. They wear a black shirt.

    Hannah Frost is a Law Graduate and Writer from the UK. She volunteers for The LUNA Project and Migraine World Summit and when she is not volunteering you can find her reading and occasionally climbing.