Just a sophomore... Scared to death

Watched my little brother diagnosed with sugar on his breath

Diabetes... juvenile

I could feel the fear inside, the kind I watched him try to hide.

Just two months later, my heart went crazy

I was tired all the time, seemed almost lazy

Wanted to sleep... Kept up the grind

Of basketball and school, but still watched my bro unwind.

But the stinging in my chest hurt like a demon threw me sticks

Didn't want to tell my parents 'cause they had enough to fix.

My heart was beating... going to town

From 300 beats a minute, then dropped the beat 250 down 

I felt it going, incessantly

It got so much worse I thought it soon must be the end for me.

Afraid to sleep now, scared I'd not wake

All I really had within me was the constant need to pray!

I saw a doctor, then was sent on

To cardiologist, for testing, and then a quick trip to Austin.

My heart monitor, it did alert!

Either my heart over-beating or my brother's sugar low.

My mother's eyes... Grew tired and still

She was on a mission just to make sure that her kids were well!

Cardiac ablation... Who knew that I,

Born with two electrical paths that were causing my heart highs.

The pounding, pounding... my screams inside

Were seared when they burned my heart tissue... some of it died.

I had to grow up... this sophomore year

So did my brother, he is 12 now, but his disease is always here.