NOTE: This year, Diabetes Blog Week and TuDiabetes are teaming up to bring out the poet in you! Write a poem, rhyme, ballad, haiku, or any other form of poetry about diabetes. After you’ve posted it on your blog, share it on the No Sugar Added® Poetry page on TuDiabetes, and read what others have shared there as well!
Unquenchable thirst
Water water, not enough
Out faster than in
An Asian woman
The fruit of her father’s genes
Months shy of forty
Once I carried weight
Shed years before D’s ugly head
Barged through my door
It tries to take over
As unwanted second self
Casting dark shadows
The salient problems:
Doctors, strangers, even friends
Slothful reporters
I dare D: get me
You and your many cronies
You can try, you’ll lose
I struggle, I fight
It bites but I bite harder
I won’t be vanquished
Power, it has none
It will writhe beneath my feet
For I’m its mistress
Run, work, eat and drink
Love, cry, feel, dance, smile, and sing
Live, not just exist
Do not pity me
I am as I choose to be
D does not own me
I will celebrate
Fireworks, drinks, and lots of cheers
I live. I am. Me.
Running Without Sugar 
Wow Diabetes blogging week, a great initiative.
Beautiful poem 🙂
Thank you.
You’re welcome 🙂
This is simply lovely. Yay for you! I celebrate your accomplishments, not your broken pancreas.
We all have a lot of things to celebrate, although sometimes they may not be so obvious.
I love this. Thank you for sharing it!
You’re welcome. Thanks for dropping a line.
No problem!
Sigh, you’re good.
You should see my other painful and unsuccessful attempts at poetry. 🙂
“Live, not just exist” Powerful, evocative – four simple words that say so much more. Thank you for that.
Thanks.
Nicely done, Jane. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you very much.