Day16: Warriors

WARRIORS

The pains I feel in my bones

Like arrows piecing into my skin

With each tear that fall

I pray the pain could disappear

Into tin air and never appear ever. 

Each pain killer I take

Feels like me taking something harmful to my body

I keep hearing this and that drugs cures

Then with all loyalty, I take

I take every drug

Just to feel better

Just to make the pain go away. 

There are days I wish I was never born

Days I wish I could just die

But those days never come.

Now I stopped wishing to die

I stopped wishing I was never born

I stopped wishing for the pain to go away. 

Some call it their cross to bear

But I call it my STRENGTH. 

The pain I once wished could disappear each day gave me STRENGTH

Each time I'm faced with this pain 

I face it like a warrior that I am

I refuse to be locked down by sickle cell

My tears, they remind me that there are days warriors shed tears too

Not as a sign of surrender, but as a sign of STRENGTH

As a sign of VICTORY

As a sign of survival

This pain made me

This pain I cherish

This pain changed me. 

Bamimosu Mariam

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