"I miss you" - a poem about MS and grief
Steve, who lives with relapsing remitting MS (RRMS), shares a poem he wrote about the things in his life he's had to say goodbye to.
I have many thoughts with my MS and I recently found that poems were a good way of putting "getting them out".
When writing "I miss you", I felt sad and reflective on the things in my life that I had to say goodbye to. Be that a future self or in the moment. MS is like that - taking things away from us. But it's not all doom and gloom. We need to say goodbye before we say hello. Hello to new friends, new challenges, new jobs and new opportunities. As I reflect there, as I write from the heart, I already hear another poem in the making - "Welcome".
I think that's the magic in writing - you feel as you write and the process feels cathartic. It can help bridge the loneliness one can sometimes feel with MS. Even though it can feel like a personal, private journey, you're not alone.
I miss you
The bike I'll never ride
The family not by my side
I miss you
The house I'll never have
The job I lost and gone
I miss you
The loving I can't do
The joy in being new
I miss you
The future I can't have
The never feeling mad
I miss you
The ladders I can't climb
The journeys lost in time
I miss you
The hope I cannot have
Growth unleased not gone
I miss you
The thoughts so clear and true
A mind untired and new
I miss you
The dreams of what I am
A tiger, not a lamb
I miss you
The passions that I had
Untempered dreams, so free, so real
I miss you
Yet me inside it all
So true unhurt still tall
I miss you
I miss you
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