I SEE WHAT YOU ARE THINKING!!!
I SEE what you are thinking
and I know what you want to say,
You want to ask, what’s up with the colors of your skin
and will they go away?
WHAT disease is that you have,
and will I get it too if I’m in your presence
or If I stand too close to you?
Were you burned in a fire?
God Bless you! YOU survived!
and then you’re thinking how sad, but yet happy I made it out alive
all sorts of special questions you most certainly will want to be askin
Oh! My favorite, …..“Is what you have the same as Michael Jackson ?”
Vitligo is what I have for all of you who stop and gaze
Skin condition, losing my pigment, no disease, nor contagious
so don’t be afraid.
I am just like you, we ARE all trying to live a normal type of life
Experiencing things some good, some bad with great effort not to view
my vitiligo as a vice
But I am loving my life and I’m THINKING that it is just the way it should be
However, it would be a lot more comfortable if you wouldn’t stop and stare at me!
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Experiencing things some good, some bad with great effort not to view my vitiligo as a vice
Alison - thank you for posting this. Hey - do you write poems not-related-to-vitiligo too ??!!
Thank you very much and it makes me happy that it inspires you!