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I am me And no one else Better to be Than anyone else But that is not what they see Because all I am now is my disease They look my way And see nothing but whats wrong They stare at me closely Wondering if I have long But I am not this sickness I am someone of interest Still, that is not what they see They can only think of my disease They look at me sadly Eyes filling with tears They want to hug me so badly And tell me I have years But I want to talk about the moon About my dog's latest trick Or how I played on the sand dunes I am not this sickness But someone of interest Yet, they don't want to see They only want to think of my disease. I fill up my days So I sing and dance always running and playing And planning to visit France Yet they say to be careful They wouldn't want me to tire Or do anything hurtful They must think I'm a crier Because to them I am this sickness Not at all a person of interest And they don't want to see Anything but my disease. I am me And no one else Better to be Than anyone else I am determined to be just myself No matter what others may think I will not sit safely up on the shelf Dreading every day if I'm on the brink So don't look at my sickness But see a person of interest And don't say, “There's the poor girl with cancer...” But instead, “There's the girl who's a fearless dancer...”
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