Don'T Say You Know Poem by mona martinez

don't freakin say you know my pain.
do you what it like to be different?
do you know i can't do certain things?
do you know when i walk i'm in pain?
do you know sometimes i can't sleep?
what the hell?
you going to tell me you know?
at times i think i will be happy paralyze.
only because the pain can be too much.
do you know what it like to not do things?
not really if you say i'm dramatizing everything.
i don't give a hoot!
i'm in pain.
do you give a damn?
no!
because you THINK you know me.
you don't know a dang thing.
you didn't go through what i did.
so don't say you know.
because you don't know.

12-31-08