Long Multiple sclerosis Poems

I miss my Mama
She left me too soon
I still see her in dreams
And even then I wonder
"Mama, are you going to leave me again?"

Everything she was
Seems to live inside of me
Her love for words
And rain
And...

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I have several poems up about my Mama, Angel Manassian. Mama died on March 19, 2000 at the age of 74. She battled with MS for most of her life. She had me at 41...a...

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Long ago, before she was ever hunted by the beast,
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The...

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There was a brave,
A sage of his age,
And there was rhythm.
Men United in the hunt,
Women united in the spiritual sounds of songs of the Shaman,
And ships from the east,
Came with the Glory of God,
And between...

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Trembling she grins, beaming
resonating in shadows 
Soft and delicate flashes, 
Wiping at bruised faith
Contemplating second chances
Now fading, falling away
Like the silence within a dream
After the music creates
Guitar promises, harmony
From the darkness 
Where she remains only
The...

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Superstitious tongues childhood blights
Exorcisms and voodoo fill his nights 
A cursed birth, a an evil within
Only he knows that the devil is him

How else can a child so bright 
Make sense of such a plight?...

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Allthough it has taken at times allmost Dying...      For whatever you may believe...
Maybe the best way for me to describe what it is that has happened to me is..
God, or...

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Oh tell me where they are, the ones I miss
The ones I long to touch with ardent kiss
Where are the ones my heart is longing for
I ache within for those whom I adore

Where are the...

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I am so damaged…                               Some...

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My heart hurts my soul is depleted 
I used to walk around feeling so undefeated 
The pain is at a tipping point & I just can't beat it

My brain is killing me & my body...

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Kadeena was born on 10 March 1991,
And competed in non-disabled sports, 
Until 2014 when she was diagnosed, 
With Multiple Sclerosis which swayed. 

She was a sprinter, including the 60m,
To set a WR of 11.97secs in...

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I am a young female warrior,

Fighting a battle unseen

Multiple sclerosis is my foe,

But I won't let it get the best of me.

I may stumble, I may fall,

But I'll get up and keep on going

I'll face...

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She starred in a Star Trek episode as the girlfriend of Khan.
She was talented but it's sad because now she is gone.
She had Multiple Sclerosis and by 1985, she was bound to a wheelchair.
When she...

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Conversations in third person, shaking legs, hands, feet, and fingers.
Diabetes, fish, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, lupus, cancer, AIDS, Chucky, 
sticks, trains, sunglasses, tampons, menopause, pregnancy, threats, crippleness, 
the end of the world, all of this...

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My best friend has multiple sclerosis at the age of 31,
Every minute someone commits suicide,
Will he make it?
If I pray hard enough will God heal him?
Would it be fair for God to heal him, when...

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