An imaginary sickness is worse than a real one.

Yiddish proverbs
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The most and the worst

Man wants money most
And uses it worst.
He wants time most
And spends it worst.
He wants things most
And waste them worst.
He wants women most
And miss them worst.
31.12.2006

poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar
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“Bound to work”

“Bound to work”
She was ailing with pain.
Work speed was some slow still then she was working.
Why?
She was a worker in a factory.
Work provides food and medicine for her family.
So, she was bound to work in illness also.
She was not telling to the manager about her ailment.
Because it may be possible that manager can sent her on leave with out pay.
And pay was everything for her.
She was a poor worker of a factory having burden of her poor family.
Poverty and burden was her destiny.
I feel that it is the story of unaccountable poor people of the world.

poem by Vijay Gupta
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To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

quote by Amos Bronson Alcott
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There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

C.S. Lewis in The Screwtape Letters, Preface (1942)
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One Small Ailment

ONE SMALL AILMENT

One small ailment is enough to destroy a mood and spoil a life’s good feeling-
One irritation can kill the soul-
Bodily beings holy as we are
We cannot endure the itch, the ague, the pain, the plague, the aching wound, the ‘thousand natural shocks flesh is heir to’

‘To scratch or not to scratch’ becomes the question-
Our pretensions mocked by our own small hurts.

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Cure For Me

I acquire the cure for my ills,
The solution is final for my illness.
It is death that resides in the middle of life,
I ignore when I am like a fortunate man.
The illness will be cured due to beasts,
They enter the planet through the vacuum.
The illness is again discontinued.
My Satan is conquered for all those watching
So that ill men who see can nevertheless find
The very soul to be complete.

poem by Naveed Akram
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With Sickness Comes Sadness

WITH SICKNESS COMES SADNESS

With sickness comes sadness
Will one ever escape?
The hurt of life
Hurts more deeply
Each day.

Sickness is sadness-
And I am afraid-
Will I ever be,
Healthy and Happy,
Again?

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Illness tells us what we are.

Italian proverbs
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You Girl

When the winds blow cold
Am I left alone
To remember times gone by
Was it all in vain
Did the faces change
And I never questioned why
Now the answers clear
I need you here, cause
Everything Ill ever want
Everything Ill ever need
Is in you girl
Everything Ill ever want
Everything Ill ever need
Is in you
You are my love today
My life tomorrow
My very soul
And Ive searched over the mountains
All through the shadows
Under the water, too

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song performed by America
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I want a Car! Can't Walk! !

The horses of your
wishes,
gallop ruthlessly,
on infirmity
of my barren
hands.

Tando Yusuf
July 21,1996

poem by Frank Lisa IndiRa Francesca Roger Platt Cornish Ma
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Pay what you owe, you will get well of your malady.

Portuguese proverbs
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In my thoguhts i am alone

In my thoughts i am alone
where i fear no one understands
the pain the illness the sadness
the nightly terrors i handle alone
this experience i cant handle of this illness
they call bipolar the way im defined or labled that
one can not see past to see who i am beyond the illness
who is scared of herself who is caring for others more than herself
who will do anything to make another happy
but for one to meet someone who is 'bipolar' thats what they see
unstable depressed manic angry mood swing mess
but what they dont understand is how stable is not in our world
and it doesnt define us it makes us who we are
this illness we battle alone cause unless you have it
you can never fully understand and even if you do i dont think
we can fully understand it...
alone in this illness
alone in these thoughts
alone is how i feel
i cry alone when i feel alone

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poem by Juliana Willsey
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Following The Sickness

Follow the sickness.
As the bodies dropp the fire burns.
And man is yet to learn.

Fighting our own shadows, fooled by our enemies.
They are the ones you just can't see.
The unaccepted theory is rejected yet again.
But still the chorus plays.

Follow the sickness.
As the bodies dropp the fire burns.
And man is yet to learn.

Follow the sickness.
As the bodies dropp the fire burns.
And man is yet to learn.

To whom it may concern.
A poetic letter, dressed in feathers.
Does it make it any prettier?

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poem by Ace Of Black Hearts
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After An Illness

AFTER AN ILLNESS

After an illness
The feeling of being alright again
Is a special kind of happiness -
Gratitude and a sense of Blessing
Hope and the feeling of Beginning again-

I have been sick and troubled in my sickness for days now
How good it is to feel I can walk out into the fresh air again

poem by Shalom Freedman
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Owner Of An Ailing Heart

I am the owner of an ailing heart
sometimes the beat wants to fall apart
I can't let it do that, for it may not re-start
I try to be like a kid in a shopping cart

Happiness is the key, so you can feel free
and to restore this ailing heart
I will need love again from the start.

poem by White Tiger
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Credit crunch(I.O.U)

Trillions gone, trillions in hide
Expansions hold depression’s curse
Sooting promises, calming pills
Ailing patient seems to get worse

poem by Ejaz Khan
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Antistar

3d
Can you heal my wounds please
Can you make it rough
And cure the pain like cortizone
And grant me indemnity (you drowned me in tennesee? )
Howll we split your chromosomes
Yeah more sweet narcosis
Yeah more sweet narcosis
(Ill turn a stone Ill find you)
Yeah more sweet narcosis
(Ill turn a stone Ill find you)
I turn a stone Ill find you there
Into afflicted light I stare
You blind me with flash bulbs
And puzzle me with syllables
Yeah more sweet narcosis
(Ill turn a stone Ill find you)
Yeah more sweet narcosis
(Ill turn a stone Ill find you)
Yeah more sweet narcosis

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song performed by Massive Attack
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Comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.

quote by Finley Peter Dunne
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Strange Sickness.

You are the reason for my illness,
You are the remedy for my sickness,
The strange sickness attacks me,
By increasing my heart's rhythm,
Giddiness in the head,
Palpitation at the chest,
Loss of appetite and
Scores of other symptoms,
Feeling quite hot when you are far,
Feeling strange when you are near,
All people seem to be happy and smile,
When you hold my hands,
Everyone seem to be sad and cry,
When you go away from me,
What sickness is this so strange,
That is induced by you?
What sickness is this so unique,
That is cleared by you?
You are the reason for me to be awkward,
Giggle at my mother when she scolds,

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poem by Veeraiyah Subbulakshmi
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