ME ISN’T REAL YOU KNOW……
ME isn’t real you know
ME is all just fake
I chose to give up work you know
To rely upon the state
ME isn’t real you know
It’s all just in my mind
I just fancied giving up
On everything in my life
ME isn’t real you know
ME is all just talk
I just chose to give up running
And use a stick to help me walk
ME isn’t real you know
The pain is in my head
In fact it’s also in my arms
My back, my ribs, my legs
ME isn’t real you say
It’s all just my pretend
You think I choose, my life to lose
As well as my final friend ?
ME isn’t real you say
Laziness is in my genes
You say this though not knowing
That I’ve worked since just thirteen
ME is just fake you say
I really am ok
Do you really reckon, for just one second
I’d choose to be this way ?
Lazy sod, it’s in your head
Wish I could just stay in bed
Shake it off, stop complaining
To be like that, you must be feigning
Just not possible, to have pain like that
And legs that just won’t go
To feel battered and bruised like you say you are
You’re a lying so and so……
To be this way is not by choice,
To hide from light, to hide from noise,
Friends don’t call, and that’s not all
They talk behind our back
They say we’re no fun, won’t go for a run
But then they don’t know Jack.
Hit with this, we don’t know why
Keep fighting on, is our battle cry
All we ask for is belief,
It’s taken our lives like a skulking thief
I ask for not a single pound
But when next the thought is going round
Let’s all do a charity run
What’s our cause, is there one ?
Can I ask that you keep minds free
And choose to help those with ME.
By Bill Clayton
© 2017