A Poem Sent To Me About How Crohn's Disease Makes My Friends and Family Feel

Today I received the below poem from my Facebook Friend Virginia who is from Colorado.  The poem was originally posted by another of my facebook friend Sabine who lives in Ireland and through these 2 women I was blessed to read just how much my disease affects my friends and family.  This poem truly puts into words what it is like to watch someone you love fight and suffer from an incurable disease.  

My friend Virginia is fighting Leukemia and at times what she and I go through with our diseases is very similar as to what the diseases do to our bodies. I have never met Virginia face to face, but we are always there for each other when we are having a bad day and need to vent and write someone.  She has had a very hard time of watching and reading what I have been going through, because there are more treatments out there for cancer than there are Crohn's disease.  And Cancer gets alot more attention than Crohn's because there are more people who have it.  I am just one of 700,000 people in the U.S alone who is fighting Crohn's/Inflammitory Bowel Disease compared to the millions of people who are fighting cancer in the U.S.  

Virginia has begun posting things about Crohn's disease on her facebook and is one of my great supporters on facebook/social media.  Thank you Virginia for sharing this poem and allowing so many to know how you and others feel as you have to watch me fight against this disease.  

 

I watched you suffer
Watched you heave
While you leaned forward and poured
Your broken spirit
On my compassionate soul
I wanted to reach out
Reach out and touch your heart
My dear and only friend
Oh how it pains to see you fall apart

But the ties we had
The lies, the sighs
Have become your living wake
As I tried to heal your spirit
And blessed it while it ached
The weariness worn on
Has got you like a curse
And I, my sweet, unforgotten friend
Fear I may still know worse