I have an illness that you can not see

I look like you and you look like me 

You ask me for dinner

I plan to meet you

I wake up in pain

Now what do I do?

I have an illness that you can not see

I didn’t ask for this to happen to me

If I always cancel

Please don’t get mad

I want to see you

But the pain is so bad

I have an illness that you can not see

I pray each day that it will just let me be

I might look okay

Even act normally

But on my bad days

It’s alarming inside me

I have an illness that you can not see

Please understand and stop judging me

It may take four times

Perhaps even five

I’ll see you when I’m well

And feeling alive

I have an illness that you can not see

I wonder if I will ever be free

I may look normal

Without physical signs

But my pain is real

It’s the worst of its’ kind

I have an illness that you can not see

I look like you and you look like me

JKC

To help with research and treatment for Trigeminal Neuralgia please go to http://www.tnnme.com (Trigeminal Neuralgia and Me) to sign a petition to have the World Health Organization (WHO) add Trigeminal Neuralgia (TN) to their “Health topic list.”

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