No one knows how much it hurts
just having you around

Every day you try to depress me
and constantly bring me down.

I try to smile through the hurt
Although I seldom succeed

No one knows how I can smile
with your evil and your greed
With all the things you take from me,
trying to take the lead

relapse and remission, fatigue and pain pills too

no eyes can see, the merciless pain
you always put me through
Unfortunately you are invisible
like the meaning of this poem

But you are arthritis,
an ache deep in my bones

bullies aren’t just people
and now I hope you can see

That you can also be taken down a peg
by a chronic disease.