DIABETES SHOCK
I sit here with this pain in my chest Thinking it will be like the last More blood More X-rays More test The pressure The burden The stress Then comes in the doc Here comes the news I dread Your heart is fine she said But then comes the shock She said, your sugar level is high you see So you have diabetes Hearing that, my heart began to pound As my world suddenly crashed to the ground I starred up at the ceiling and said to myself God, why me and not someone else? Nothing did I hear No image No visions Nothing did appear Life will go on, this I know is true But how can it for me, with this news My dreams of the future My life style of the past All changed so fast I lie here, an empty shell of a man Dark, deep, hollow inside Nothing left now, nothing to hide Thoughts of ending it all start to appear I start to get choked and tear With thought of my family so dear Thoughts of missing them without me All caused by some damn, disease I fight and struggle to fill this hollow shell It soon becomes a fight between heaven and hell My head begins to swirl and ache The room starts to spin and shake The battle is on And which will win Only God knows in the end So as I lie here, recovering from the night that has passed I realize I must move on and leave the past For I must create a new future for me Because I want to be around for my Abby For all this happened on the 1st day of her 3rd year A day, I'll remember till the very end Wednesday, December 20th, of the year two thousand -mm Michael Lee Manley Copyright ©2001 Michael Lee Manley |