RA,RA GO AWAY!

This is my second ever poem and it came to me the other day while laid out in the bed from RA pain with ice packs and heat packs lodged everywhere on my painful body. Kinda like the song we would sing as a kid "Rain Rain go away ,comes again another day but with an RA twist. Hope you enjoy it.

RA ,RA go away ...I just can't deal with you today.

My hands are swollen,sore and weak...don't even get me started ....on my poor feet

You sneak upon me like a thief in the night ...robbing me of what was once..a "normal" life.

I push the thought of you out of mind ...hoping ..praying....wishing...you out of my life.

I can wish and want as I may ...but RA unfortunately is here to stay.

You trick my mind when in remission...thinking you're gone for good ...but that's just foolish wishing ....cause just when you think it's out of sight ...there you are...like that thief in the night.

I wake in awful pain ..and wonder will it eventually drive me insane.

Simple things become the hardest to do.

Take a shower ..try to let the hot water loosen my painful joints ...but to dress is such a chore.... In its self. Little things become so very hard...dressing..combing my hair..or even something as simple ....as getting up out of a chair.

You rob me of my independence and a normal life ....for I was only a teen when you changed my life!

I was Young and hopeful ...for what my future might hold..little did I know just how wicked you are..so heartless and cold. You would throw my hopes ....my dreams into a spin ....for I'm only a shadow of the person I had been.

Now unable to work and searching for my purpose in life..at times you make me feel useless ...like there is no purpose left to my life.

But I'm more than just RA..I'm a wife....a mother ...a creative mind ..and a friend ..a shoulder to cry on ...but I have a little secret... A secret hidden within ...its my inner solider ...always ready to fight you.....as he secretly forever hides within.

I may fall weak to you now and then ...you may beat me down till i feel there is no end...and just when you think you've finally won this fight.....I'm not only the things i mentioned above ....but inside me lives a true fighter....and i will fight you Till the end...so don't be so sure of yourself RA ...cause you may get me down at times...but I ALWAYS get back up ...I ..WILL NEVER give up this fight...for I will beat you ...cause hope and faith always wins. So RA ,RA just go away ...for I have no time for you in my life...not today. ;)