Friday, October 9, 2015

Being Me, A Poem, By Amanda Fessler

A past unrealized
A future uncertain
Forever altered by an incurable disease.

A past unrealized
A future uncertain
Inability to be who I imagined I'd be.

So many things unable to come to fruition
Can I have a family, a career, a life
An identity outside this disease?

Who am I without Behcet's Disease?
I am me. The same me before.
A different me after.

For this disease has forever changed me in a positive way
Because underneath all the insecurities, the doubt, the unfulfilled dreams
Is a better me. More than I imagined I'd be, not less.

When I look in the mirror
Instead of seeing who I used to be
I see who I am.... Now.

And that's MORE than enough.

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