Sickness Poems

Sickness Poems

Poems for when a Loved One is Sick

When a family member has an illness, the entire family can be affected. The way that the illness is dealt with has an affect on the entire family. Some mothers or fathers feel that it is best to discuss the illness as little as possible with their children because they don't want to worry them. This can often have the opposite effect. Because the children know something is going on, but they don't know what, it often feels more scary for them. It is often best to give them as much information as they ask for. In this way they will feel part of what is going on.

24 Poems About Sickness and Pain

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  1. 1. I'm A Person Too


    • By Dawn Mazzola
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2010 with permission of the Author.

    Here I lie in bed again, Awaiting my next meal.
    A worker barges in my room, As if it's no big deal.

    What ever happened to courtesy? Just a little knock.

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    • Rating 4.63
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    I too worked as a CNA for 15 plus years and then I choose to do private home health care. I always respected my residents and my private clients and demanded that everyone else did. They each...

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  3. 2. Dementia


    • By Debbie Bell
    • Published by Family Friend Poems December 2020 with permission of the Author.

    Help me to remember
    What I forget each day.
    Don't let the dementia
    Take my memories away.

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    • Favorited 5
    • Votes 45
    • Rating 4.73
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    My friends Dad has this. She would love this poem.

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  5. 3. Changing Places

    • By Alora M. Knight
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2015 with permission of the Author.

    I see the sadness in your eyes,
    The times that you are knowing
    What's happening to your wondrous mind,
    The symptoms you are showing.

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    • Rating 4.57
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    Memories! I was 53, he 54 when the complications of Alzheimer's took him. At his prime as an exporter, his secretary fell for him. I left and visited Canada for 3 months, but on my return,...

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  6. 4. Living With Dementia

    • By Annabel Sheila
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 2008 with permission of the Author.

    She's trapped inside the prison walls
    That used to be her mind.
    The woman that she used to be,
    Has long been left behind.

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    Would love to read some of your experiences. I am currently caring for and have two care givers looking after my 80 year old mother.

  7. 5. Overdose

    • By Julie Lee
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2008 with permission of the Author.

    Who do you see lying there,
    As you hold his wrist in your hand?
    I see what you see, but I know who I know
    My brother, your patient, the man.

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    • Votes 154
    • Rating 4.36
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    It tells a touching and moving story using tight, easily readable stanzas. That's a rare combination. Nicely done!

  8. 6. She Is Strong

    • By Mary Ann Parks
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2015 with permission of the Author.

    At birth,
    she was strong.

    It was her

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    • Stories 4
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    • Rating 4.30
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    This is very similar to my younger sister. About 2 years ago she was really sick. I look back on pictures of her before she was diagnosed (T1D) and I can't believe I didn't notice something...

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  9. 7. Last Embers Verse II

    • By BGW
    • Published by Family Friend Poems September 2022 with permission of the Author.

    Each day you come and see me, I wonder who you are.
    You seem so happy to sit beside me and give away your time.
    As you tell me stories, I sit there in a dreamlike state of mind.
    I don't know if I knew you, so many memories have passed me by.

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    • Votes 17
    • Rating 4.82
  10. 8. Living With Dementia

    • By Emma L. Buckley
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 2021 with permission of the Author.

    My mind is not what it once was:
    wilting like a rose.
    One thing you must remember:
    this is not the life I chose.

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    • Stories 5
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    • Favorited 9
    • Votes 147
    • Rating 4.59
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    Sometimes you just NEED a break. My parents' assisted living center is short on staff, and I'm trying to be there more. Last night I fed them BOTH and then (with my horrible back with tumors...

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  11. 9. Losing Me...Finding Me

    I look in the mirror and the person I see
    Is someone who used to be me.
    That person was strong and healthy, rarely ill,
    And her energy was endless; she never sat still.

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    • Votes 141
    • Rating 4.58
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    Sorry to hear that, Paul. Keep your head up, and I would love to hear more of your poetry and share some of your future journey. Sharing helps. Keep fighting

  12. 10. Last Embers Verse I

    • By BGW
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2022 with permission of the Author.

    The clarity of my mind has faded.
    Those vibrant thoughts, slowly washed away.
    Memories once so strong, are now so distant.
    Names of those I held so dear, escape me now.

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    • Rating 4.58
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    I and (I'm guessing many hundreds of thousands of) others know exactly what you mean first-hand.

  13. 11. The Greatest Loss

    When the time came again to visit her there,
    He'd feel that dark sense of despair.
    He could already picture her sweet, gentle face,
    Marred by that sad, empty stare.

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    • Stories 1
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    • Votes 32
    • Rating 4.53
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    My fiance and the love of my life had passed from cancer one year ago. My heart is forever scared, but I must go on with my life and raise my four-year-old daughter.

  14. 12. In His Hands

    I heard some bad news today, something that made me scared,
    Today I found out my dad has cancer; it was something I had always feared.
    I knew many people that passed away because of this evil cell,
    Yet I know of some that beat it, and of course turned out well.

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    • Stories 8
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    • Favorited 9
    • Votes 277
    • Rating 4.53
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    I have a friend. Her 8-year-old girl is diagnosed with a brain tumor. I want a poem to comfort her and tell her everything will be fine. This will be her second operation. She is still young.

  15. 13. Past, Present, Future

    • By Hali
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 2016 with permission of the Author.

    My eyes glistening with tears,
    But not yet fallen.
    I'm crying, but they're silent tears.
    I'm crying on the inside so you are unable to see

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    • Rating 4.51
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    My dad had epilepsy, and i remember waking up in the middle of the night to hear him crying because of his seizures, because he had accidentally hurt one of us. As a kid I was always having...

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  16. 14. My Father

    • By Lizzette Cambron
    • Published by Family Friend Poems July 2006 with permission of the Author.

    My father is ill
    And fading away
    Still here for a while
    And a few more days

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    • Stories 2
    • Shares 166
    • Favorited 5
    • Votes 200
    • Rating 4.51
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    This made me cry, such a great poem. My dad has multiple sclerosis and has lived in a nursing home for 16 years. I'm only 20 so almost my whole life he has been in there. I know once he dies...

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  17. 15. Let Me Go

    • By Laura J Sanders
    • Published by Family Friend Poems June 27, 2023 with permission of the Author.

    Let me go, release me like a flying kite.
    Let me go, let me fade, like day turns to night.
    Watch me sink, like the deep orange setting sun.
    For 'twas a sunset of dreams I once provided for everyone.

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    • Shares 37
    • Favorited 2
    • Votes 16
    • Rating 4.50
  18. 16. A Forgotten Life

    • By Linda Harrison
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2014 with permission of the Author.

    She resides in a home, sits in a chair,
    Nothing to bother her, make her worry or care.
    Caretakers to help her wash and dress,
    Doing all that they can not to cause her distress.

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    • Stories 1
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    • Votes 149
    • Rating 4.46
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    Hello. I can so relate to what you have said. and of course more than what you have said. My Dad got dementia when he was 83. He wouldn't accept that he needed help and I would take weeks...

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  19. 17. My Pain

    • By Sami Chester
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2011 with permission of the Author.

    You try to understand
    But I don't want you to
    I don't think you can comprehend
    The pain that I go through.

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    • Stories 1
    • Shares 342
    • Favorited 26
    • Votes 193
    • Rating 4.46
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    Your poem touched me, after reading this you have been in my prayers. It's almost been nine months that I've been sick, in and out of hospitals my whole eighth grade year. Everyday in...

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  20. 18. Suffering Up Close

    Suffering up close is so different from afar,
    it's the supreme test in life,
    to show what strengths there are.

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    • Stories 2
    • Shares 650
    • Favorited 11
    • Votes 159
    • Rating 4.45
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    Dear Melissa, I am so sorry it took me so long to reply to you. I am sorry for the loss of your father, my heart goes out to you. I wrote "Suffering Up Close" after my precious mother passed...

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  21. 19. She Doesn't Know Me

    • By Alan N. Prentice
    • Published by Family Friend Poems October 14, 2024 with permission of the Author.

    In the crowded room she sits alone,
    Lost inside her tangled thoughts,
    Her eyes unfocused on the floor,
    She doesn't know me any more.

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    • Stories 4
    • Shares 8
    • Favorited 0
    • Votes 7
    • Rating 4.43
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    I am sorry to hear that you no longer write Ann. You have a talent that it is a shame not to use as your poems show that you have a way of using words to inspire and comfort. I feel now that...

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  22. 20. Grandma

    • By Jessica K. Riley
    • Published by Family Friend Poems August 2006 with permission of the Author.

    O Grandma, O Grandma, don't ever give up hope.
    All you family and friends are learning to cope.
    Please stay strong and never stop praying.
    You will get better soon; that's what everyone is saying.

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    • Stories 3
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    • Favorited 11
    • Votes 429
    • Rating 4.42
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    Beautiful poem. I love it. One of my favorite poems on this website.

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