Influenza

We've run through the gamut of symptoms:

The high fever when we first met
      flushed in the face with watery eyes
            feeling weak in the knees with elation

Then came the incessant headaches
      short-winded grumblings after each dry cough
            sore throats from yelling cursing and suppressing tears

Yet we carry on bed-ridden skin-soaked
      stuck in a perpetual state of hot and cold spells
            feeling frayed tattered and torn like the first Farmer's Almanac