I walked into this world of ours..
with a disease you cannot see..
It is not in a medical textbook..
it is not in a journal..
but it is one

I still remember many years..
hoping someone would find the cure..
but alas.. it could not come..
for the disease went unseen..

I could not hope for more..
but I could not expect much less..
For only The Father, Himself saw..
what the world could not see..

I ached for arms to surround me..
I begged within.. 
"Could there be something wrong with me?"
For truly I had..
a disease you could not see..

I longed for the loving touch of a friend..
but I was impotent
I was lost..
I was confused..
all because of a disease.. you cannot see..

I cried out with all the strength I could muster..
  but it was only a whimper..
  and it went unheard..
 for it was just a disease.. you cannot see..

I begged for solace..
I begged for tenderness..
but all I got was shame..
all because of a disease.. you cannot see..

Now I sit here dying..
of a disease you cannot see..
Now I sit here wondering..
what is wrong with me..?
What keeps me separate from all that love I see?
What keeps me different from so many?
Then it occurred to me..
it was a disease.. I could not see.