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Juvenile Myoclonic Epilepsy

Clifton, Barrett

 

I am not the master of my fate am not the boy I once knew.

I am not the victim of my condition am not the man who succumbs.

I am not the master of my body
am not the spirit of fire I once thought.

I am not the victim of my tremors
am not anything less than the pursuit of tranquility.

I am not the master of my life
am not the soul trembling before death

I am JimMiE, though JimMiE will never be me.
am the end, and the means, and JimMiE is naught but a reminder to stand again after the fall.