Ode to my Thyroid

I never really knew you were there
just humming away.
Except when I gained weight
and cursed you.
Or when I ate early in the morning
just to get you going.
Then I knew you were there.
I lost forty pounds,
it was hard
Two years, working together,
at least I thought we were.
Then I knew you were there.
My voice was going in and out,
I didn’t know you weren’t alone.
She felt a lump in you,
he saw it on the screen.
Cancer on one side,
Hashimoto’s disease on the other.
Who is Hashimoto, he can have
his disease back.
I knew you weren’t there,
awakening, groggy, in unbearable
pain, you hurt so much, even though
you were gone.
Good-bye my thyroid,
take that tumor with you.
I’m so fucking tired, I wish
you were still here,
alone...