Don't Call Me Brave! ! Poem by Debra kemp

Don't call me brave!
I am not brave because I am sick.
I am not brave because I have a disease. I am not brave.
Brave is soldiers in Iraq fighting for us.
Brave is standing at gun point for what you believe in.
Its not me.
Crying in my room for the days on end is not not brave.
Being unable to actually move doesn't make me brave.
Just because i have a disease dose not make me brave.
those who fight to live are brave.
I do not fight to live.
I do not fight.
I just can't give up.
I physically can't stop.
I will always be sick but I will never be brave for being this way.
Please do not call me brave for wishing I could just die.
Do not call me brave for being alive.
I am not brave! !