Disease Distance

Disease Distance

© by Bud Lemire on April 24, 2014

Here I sit feeling so lonely

Why won't my friends visit me

I didn't ask to have this

Now it's my friends I really miss

I hate this disease, but what can I do

I try my best, to just get through

I'm just so tired, and I feel so weak

Sometimes I even find it hard to speak

I spend much time around a Doctor and Nurse

They check on me so I don't get worse

It hurts so much, sometimes I cry all day

But still this pain won't go away

They can't catch this disease

I wish their fears was what I could ease

Why can't people understand more

I'm the same person I was before

Each day means the most to me

To live another, is what I long to see

A friend nearby would help me through

I wish that they only knew

I wish somehow that it would get through

That one day if they have nothing to do

I would welcome a visit from a friend

To lighten my heart until the day's end

Through the eyes of the person who has the illness.

It's sad that friends and family back away at times

when we need them most. They need to understand

it can't be caught. Learn about it, because someone

out there needs a friend.