Poetry Contest Poll! Vote Now!!

Poll Started April 27, 2009 by Valerie Chavez

Poetry Contest Poll: The Most Ridiculous Thing You've Been Told About Your Fibro Experience!

Vote on your favorite poem submitted into the poetry contest!

1. Gina's Poem:

So now I have a diagnosis
I'm not so crazy
It's not in my head
Time to tell the family
Now I must explain
Exactly what it is
And prove that yes
Such a disease
Really does exist
So far so good
One after another
My family understands
So many questions
So few answers
Then one comment
Came my way
One which stopped me
Dead in my tracks
"It's because of those shoes you wore"
Says my aunt
I had to stop and ask
"What do you mean?"
"Oh, you know" Says she
"Those heels you wore to work..
They killed your nerves.
They gave you this disease"
I just thanked her for her insight
And called it a night
Out of all the wacky things
My family could come up with,
High heeled shoes
Definitely topped the list!

2. Clairepie's Poem:

I can only metaphor the feeling for those who’ve never felt
The shredding of the skin and the brain from thought. The melt.
The battle of pain begins when you sleep inside out
The biting from the teeth, claws grab, there’s no one about
To show them you’re fighting is like giving in.

When the battle’s almost over, you right yourself true
Eyes look outside but there’s something within you
That tears and scars and blinds and quiets
You took it with you inside and on you it diets
To show them you’re fighting still giving in.

Splits into a thousand peaces,
Each one a life time apart
When the pain goes
You feel the healing scars

That is until a shock attack of biting gripping teeth
The monster pain you thought was dead
Was nothing but asleep
And it still goes on, all within a blink

You smile and reach over to your tv remote
That was a good show
You let no one know
You are fine

On the outside.

3. Michelle's Poem

Years ago after I hurt my back
I started to hurt everywhere.
I felt like I always had the flu
And even started losing my hair.
I told my doctor then
That something else was very wrong.
He replied to me as if he actually knew
That it was all in my head all along.
I almost believed him and took the meds
Just in case I was crazy,
Then he told me something worse,
He told me that I was just lazy!
Being the person that I am
I knew that this was not true
And I looked him straight in the eye
And told him maybe he was crazy too!!!

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  • Clairepie

    Rewally love the other poems. Fibromyalgia is so misunderstood by other people that they say mental things!!! I have had similair things said to me: It's the food I ate, it's the shoes I wore, IT'S ALL IN MY HEAD. It's actually my genetic make up, I was always going to get FMS one way or the other......at some point in my life. I really like BYDLS responses to other ppl (google search it)

    *sleepy fuzzy Clairepie*

    33 months ago

  • Jennifer

    All 3 of these appeal to me.  I have to think about it.  I'll be back to vote soon!

    33 months ago

  • Wallace

    I really liked all three but in the end i decided who to vote for. I voted for the second one as it reminds me of the woman I love.

    33 months ago

  • Michelle

    When does this poll end?

    SHELL

    33 months ago

  • Diane

    I love all three poems as I have been told the same thing.It's all in my head. It's a desease that does'nt show up on an x-ray or by blood work so your labeled nuts,and you begin losing friends because they want you to go out and you can't. You spend all your time wrapped up and in tears due to the DEMON that lives inside you and attacks your bones, and just leaves you in tears saying ,if this is my life, then I don't want to live it anymore.

    Your left with no friends or family because they just don't want to hear about your pain anymore that they don't even think exists.

                                                                                                                      Diane  <proudnanna>

    I to wrote a Poem about this desease.

    32 months ago

  • Annie

    I missed the contest.  All are beautiful and heartfelt.  Huggles, Annie

    30 months ago

  • Iris

    All 3 poems were beautiful. It was very hard to pick one.

    26 months ago

  • Lisa

    All three poems were wonderful.  The third one sounds like my story.  I can totally relate!!!!  It is funny, I didn't even know about fibro until I started having the pain so I'm not sure how they think it is in our heads.  It is just nice to know that there is a name for what we are experiencing.  I know one thing is that this has to be one of the coldest winters we have had in a long time and with that comes alot of pain.

    24 months ago

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