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Inherited blood disorder

Defective hemoglobin

Causing severe anemia

With yellowish skin showing

Nothing to carry the oxygen

Leaving you short of breath

Facing a lifelong condition

Your only relief will be death

Thalassemia - decreased hemoglobin

Thalassemia - defective blood condition

Thalassemia - Iron overload

Damaging the endocrine system

Bone deformities

Greatly enlarged spleen

They may end the disease

By altering your genes

A silent carrier

Yet the child is cursed

The sins of the father

Forever rehearsed