She was coughing
Coughing hard enough
To vomit

Her head was throbbing
She was somewhat spasming
Her nose was burning

She had a stabbing pain in her throat
With each coughing fit, it felt like it could tear

Would this cough do her in?

She didn't know
She was coughing hard enough to vomit
Her head was throbbing

This was agony
And it was hurting to breathe

She's had coughing fits
But this one was severe
Severe enough

To ache her head and void her stomach

Her throat was hurting
Burning, with a sharp, almost stabbing pain
Each cough felt

As though it would tear her throat

In her fear, she wondered if it did
And if she'd bleed as she slept

Picturing a lonely, terrifying end
Of painful breathing, a throbbing head, vomit
And blood mixed with thick phlegmy saliva

Before stillness
In a never-ending slumber

As she struggled, she was praying
Praying that she'd awake the next day.