Undiagnosed Pain

 They tell you,

It's all in your head.

As if your head,

Is not a universe,

Expanding, 

Filled with nebulas of pain,

And constellations of confusion.

But also, 

Planets of hope,

And galaxies of strength.

Remember,

When society's ignorance, 

Weighs heavy on your heart,

Their eyes,

Cannot see,

What their minds, 

Do not know.

You are not defined,

By the disbelief,

Of those,

Who have never walked,

Through the storms,

You've weathered.

You are defined, 

By the courage, 

It takes to live,

In a body, 

That is a battlefield ,

And still, choose to rise.

- Aspen Greenwood