Insulin
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I need you
every day
every hour of every minute.
I need you.
You keep me alive
you take away the high
you bring the lows
I need you.
Sometimes you are too much
I am athletic, but diabetic.
I wonder if people look at me and instantly know I have diabetes.
I hear the crowd cheering me on while up to bat.
I see myself being honored one day for raising so much money.
Wake up in the morning, do another finger prick.
If my meter reads a number too high, it might make me sick.
I'll cook a little breakfast, counting every carb I devour.
If I over-correct on insulin, I'll go low in an hour.
Im a poetic diabetic.
I rhyme, and forget to take my insulin on time.
I write, if my blood sugars allright.
i let the words flow, unless im having a low.
I paraphrase a bunch, and i inject at lunch.
Pain.
Everyday, every hour.
Neddles, Insulin, Blood.
This is my life.
My immune system rushes in to crush me.
Im dying.
All I can think bout is the babies.
The ones who know my pain.
I take forever Looking in the mirror.Connected to a machineThat acts as my pancreas.Never truely naked.
