Diabetes POV

 

Living with diabetes isn’t simple to explain

So bear patience as I tell you about each day.

Night and day have no difference I behave;

Screams, tears, exhaustion, defeat, and anger are some of the mood swings

Created by highs and lows that send my world warping.

Most decisions are filled with experimentation and stressed praying;

Each traveling moment is filled with strife and endless planning. 

And wherever I go people begin questioning;

Questioning the choices I make with my medication.

Invoking the power of dictation;

 Continuously reprimanding and misunderstanding;

Disregarding the danger I daily encounter.

 Learning with shut minds and advising voices

 They never listen when told, "It wasn't my choice." 

 

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 So, you wanted to know the details, yes?

To have good and bad days confessed?

To be told my story start to finish:

 The first DKA, shot given, mood swings, and OD miscalculations;

The time a low nearly became a hypoglycemic reaction?

Or perhaps, your pet interest would be my brain

And a list of its residents and how dark their thoughts stain?

But no, I digress; you want to hear the code I recite,

 The code I must obey for the rest of my life. 

*Ahem*

1. Stab your hands till they bruise and scar:

-I'm always bleeding-

 2. Accept the needle and pump marks patterned like stars;

-I’m not a junkie-

3. Taste the sweetness of the iron in your veins;

-I’m not a vampire-

4. Invite insomnia to move in;

-I’m running on fumes and breaking-

5. Enjoy the rockets on the roller coaster;

-I’m sweating and suffocating-

6. Watch the world through 3D glasses;

-I’m disoriented and slipping through reality-

7. Become friends with hunger;

-I’m numb and empty-

8.  Play with 50/50 odds on complications;

-I’m burning from thresholds of anguish I can’t comprehend-

9. Listen to the hospital melody;

-I’m shaking and sobbing with no comfort said-

10. Dance and sing a duet with fatigue; 

-I’m begging for everything to just to end.-

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Diabetes isn't a fight you always win,

 It’s a choice you make: Do or Die.

It's the life I live: fighting body and mind. 

And now that you know what I do and feel

Let live my life how I need to, 

Deal?