Happy World Sickle Cell Day!❤️

To the one percents of the one percent...

They are called warriors, not just because they battle pain,

But because they do it with grace, a torch of light in a tunnel of ache.

The crises, the meds, the sharp sting of needles, the cold walls of hospital rooms.

Still, they rise each day, fighting tooth and soul, to witness tomorrow’s dawn.

A warrior once wrote,

"The fault is not in our stars but in our cells", and I felt every syllable.

I may not know much,

But this I know for sure:

If love is blind, then the cost of hospitalization is eye-widening.

Truth rips through illusion

When pain becomes the price of romance.

Love may be blind, yes, but sentencing a child to a lifetime of pain, all because of a love unchecked, is not just unfair...

It is cruel.

So here’s to the warriors still standing, hearts ablaze, hands blood-stained, fighting a war they never signed up for.

Bracing complications that come uninvited, yet complaining far less than most of us blessed with healthy cells.

You are not just strong.

You are sacred.

You are seen.

You are loved.

@favvy_Okwans❤️