I will always be young

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A poem about the life of someone with cystic fibrosis, falling in love, experiencing life, but always having that knowledge hanging over them, but understanding it and coming to terms with it. The changing structure of the poem shows the different changes within the mind of the person.

I will always be young

I always knew from birth to death
What would cause my final breath



That I would always be young 

 
 
 

We walked alone on different shores

Defined by guilt through different wars

 

 

And I will never grow old

 

 

I watched as moments passed me by

I watched my truth become a lie

 

 

And so I ran away

 

 

I caught your eye in a different place

I walked across to see your face

 

 

And so I fell in love

 

 

Cause now we see, 

That we could be,
 

All the memories that we need

In the shorts lives that we lead

 

 

My illness won't define me

 

 

I will live an early life and I will die beside

I will die a happy man knowing I had died

 

 

Alongside the one I love

 

 

I will die a happy man

Knowing that I give

My life to someone that I love

And knowing that you live

 

 

But I will never grow old

 

 

 

 

 

 

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