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07-16-2014, 11:49 AM
#111
WOW Lisa what a beautiful poem
I can identify with those feelings.....
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01-21-2015, 09:01 AM
#112
I just wrote this last night in my attempt to give a short-ish description of Autoimmune Disease to help people jump on board with PJ Day this year.
Here's what I came up with.
In too many lives,
those little white cells,
so aptly designed
to keep our health in line,
for reasons unknown,
freak out,
and forget
what their jobs are about.
To germs,
virus
and bacteria unkind,
our immune system
is meant to bind,
but in it’s haste it falls behind.
Against the body
it is meant to protect,
the immune system
has now launched an attack.
Then life can become dire.
Existence,
body,
mind,
submerged in quagmire.
Questioning self,
fighting for life,
in up until now,
unprecedented strife
Our jobs by the wayside,
employers confused,
our families shattered,
souls battered and bruised.
We’ve seen the expensive
“machine that goes ‘ping’”
we’ve even felt its overused, broken springs.
One in Five will feel this wrath.
How’s that for applied math?
There is no age limit,
in either direction,
and women make up three quarters of this collection.
Early detection
and many injections
(of chemo
and steroids
and more,)
are the only hope,
us unlucky dopes
have of futures
with more life than hopes.
We can endure,
of this you can be sure.
But just so we’re perfectly clear;
for the ONE in FIVE affected,
There is NO CURE.
But wait,
don’t drop the curtain just yet
because if one thing’s for certain,
success will come
if we keep beating the drum...
“We are ALL CONNECTED
because in some way or other, we’re ALL affected.”
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