Showing posts with label Poems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Poems. Show all posts

Monday, November 4, 2013

You Don't Know My Pain

You don't know my pain
Chronically ill for months
Feeling like I'm about to go insane
You don't know my pain
Crying out to God in the middle of the night
Asking Him to spare my life once again
Multiple issues clashing together
People not understanding brushing everything off
Family in denial because I'm always the health nut
Yet I feel so alone and in a rut
You don't know my pain
Suffering and in a financial strain
Waking up daily for months feeling drained
My circle of friends got smaller
Folks who I thought would be there bailed on a sister when I hollered
Neurological, physical to mental
This disease has wreaked harm on my body in an unfair way
I've cried out to God asking Him why am I going through
Relating to every word in the book of Job as he was tested too
Praying for a cure
A miracle
Not just for me but for many who are behind me
That will become sick with this devil disease called Lyme
People keep saying all in time
I will be healed
But when...
Whatever I need to do God please show the way
I'll do whatever you want but please have mercy on my soul and hear me as I pray
You don't know pain
I hope you will never know
As I became a victim to this disease
That hit me with a heavy blow
Live life while you have health
And don't be like me wondering...thinking...what if I had done this or that...
Remain prayerful despite your storms and never turn your back
On people like me
Because you never know if your number will be called
And if it is...trust me...you won't want to feel alone
Alone...
Alone...
You don't know my pain...

Written By: Serena T. Wills

June, 2013

Dedicated to Everyone Dealing and Healing from Lyme Disease and any Chronic Illness or Injury

Copyright 2013 (c) Serena Wills
All rights are reserved

Monday, September 16, 2013

I'm published again! The Anthology, Cornbread, Fish and Collard Greens is now available on Amazon!


I'm happy to announce that I am published in another anthology. "Cornbread, Fish and Collard Green: Prayers, Poems and Affirmation for People Living with HIV/AIDS" is now available on Amazon. This beautiful anthology is edited by Khafre Abif who is a father of two sons and living with HIV for 24 years.

I submitted a couple of poems while I was pregnant with my son a couple of years ago. Khafre loved my poems and asked if they could be included! I wrote them in dedication to two women in my family who lost their lives to AIDS, my Aunt Dorethea and Glenda and my sister Ayana Wills who never contracted HIV or AIDS but was born to a mother who had AIDS.

You can go to this link to buy the book. My name is also mentioned on the back cover of the book amongst other beautiful artists and writers (which you can view on Amazon). I'm so blessed and eternally grateful! God bless you all! The best is yet to come!

http://www.amazon.com/Cornbread-Fish-Collard-Greens-Affirmation/dp/1491803215/ref=sr_1_1_title_2_pap?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1379353671&sr=1-1&keywords=cornbread+fish+and+collard+greens