Thyroid Warrior

Every morning when I wake it's as if I'd just closed my eyes the night before.

I spend my day in a haze of clouds and feeling unsure.

I have to focus a little harder to see, because my eyes are struggling.

My head always feels a little fuzzy, like the white noise on a TV.

And most of the time I feel like everyone's annoyed with me.

Why can't I get better? What's really wrong with me?

Living day to day in this cruel uncertainty.

Sometimes feeling nauseous with random bursts of chest pain

Leaving me immobilized and on the couch I'm laying.

Other times I feel real dizzy and I stumble, nearly fall.

Perhaps it would be easier to just get down and crawl.

My daughter wants to play but all I want is rest

And every day she puts all my strength to the test.

Random tinglies in my hands and feet as if they're going numb

And forgetting what I was just told makes me feel so dumb

Sometimes I just zone out because it's all too much to bare

And other times I just give up because I do not care.

I take medication every single day

Unsure why I take it because it doesn't help anyway.

My muscles hurt me every day, I always feel so sore.

Sometimes I start to wonder why I'm trying anymore.

I just want some relief, one day where I feel great.

And a little less feeling of brutal self hate.

Was it something I did to make me be this way?

Why can't this stupid disease just stop and go away?

So if you think that thyroid disease is just a silly joke,

You'll probably be labeled as an arrogant bloke.

Because your thyroid, see, controls most of who you are.

And I'm a thyroid disease warrior, in a never ending war.