Bayside Polio Support Group

A poem written by one of the group

To our new friends we can’t pretend

To our support group friends we cannot hide behind our inability.

We’ve all been bound hand and foot knew the splints and hot plasters injection, dejection, infection, subjection, and the ultimate resurrection.

We’ve shared the pain of other’s cries

Shared years of forlorn looks and terrifying physio hours and hours of you can you can do it just a little more…

No more No more No more

Our support group friends understand the push of others desires.

Our kindred spirits all live the indignity of “I know I could yesterday, but today I just can’t. OK.”

Our support friends understand the autumn sun, to shed our pain to hold on rest a while take a breath and try once more.

Our support friends understand our dissent and why we try ever so hard not to be noticed different clumsy difficult

To our support friends we can’t pretend that we’re just friends.

– Peter, Bayside Polio Support Group