But You're Young
The Fibromyalgia Fun Pack!
Includes, widespread pain, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety,
muscle spasms, cognitive or memory impairment,
chronic fatigue,insomnia,
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Wait you’re here for arthritis? Oh thats in the main room
And yeah I just walk like this I-
Sorry
I know they don’t mean to be mean but,
I just can’t help but feel a little bit jealous
that we’re searching through everything else with a fine tooth comb overzealous
and I'm just here looking for my pins and needles in the haystack with nothing else to do but
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"What's wrong with you?"
I'd rather hear those words a million times
over,
over,
and over again
Than be stared at
just like an animal in the zoo.
Because I'm human!
All over the fact that I don't look sick.
But the validity of a disability
Shouldn't have anything to do with visibility
I shouldn't’ have to prove to you that I
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I'm late again
As I sit down in my desk you turn,
You ask why I'm never marked late
As if it were your business
I don't even know you!
I get extra time, I have a 504 for Fibromyalgia I explain.
And I get a stare almost as blank as your paper
"Lucky!"
Lucky? I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy
I stand up to turn on the light
and I'm lightheaded.
To try to balance out the blunt unfairness,
I write letters to leaders to try to raise awareness
So like my joints, my pen goes
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