She has asthma
He has arthritis
She has cancer
He has colitis
A person with alzheimer’s
A person with leukemia
A person with irritable bowel syndrome
A person with high fever
She’s got endometriosis
She’s got osteoporosis
He’s got multiple sclerosis
He’s got cystic fibrosis
A person
Still one of us
Illness imposition
A person
One of them
Is his condition
A schizophrenic
Paraplegic
Epileptic too
You are your disease
You’re called it
So it’s true
There are certain ones of us
In a demarcated existence
But why is it this way?
The “IC”
They must say
It’s so hectic
Being a diabetic
I am not this noun
In which to be tied down
Why can’t I be me?
I am not a disease
I'm a person, like you, who breathes
I have type 1 diabetes