You hurt people

You leave scars on the ones who try to beat you and you test those who try to get over you, oh and you try to test if they actually want to beat you..

But yet you take away the lives of those who are to vulnerable to fight against you. 

You leave people so weak even when there recovering enough to walk talk and live. Trying to lead a normal life, dealing with the pain you've caused..

Creating new pathways in a damaged brain that could give up on you again, hurting people around you; loved ones, friends, family and people who are there to just listen and support you through it..

It's hard to realise you're a life destroying 'illness' or should I call you a 'killer?' Something that we try so hard to prevent but yet people get destroyed by you. 

Dear strokes that happen to anyone at any age, we try we fight as much as we can. You're not winning if you destroy a life but you fail. You create a heartache to more people who will just want you to stop. 

Stop hurting everyone and  preventing them doing things they once did without thinking.