Disabled--January-2017

Pretty Petty’s Poem for the Disabled

Hello Pretty Pets, how are you doing?

Let us introduced ourselves: we’re Amanda D. Petty, James W. Hill, Megan, Anna Shepherd, Abdul Sami, and Khan Baba; we’re poets. This is a very special issue or version that we’re doing. Megan, James, and I are disabled or handicapped too. If you want to know more about us, Amanda wrote a very powerful paper about “Being Handicapped”. Just click on this link: http://beinghandicappedessay.blogspot.com. In 2001, Amanda discovered poetry by an accident. I’ll be doing this issue.

This poem is a surprise. Some people don’t think about being handicapped or disabled as companions. I didn’t think either, but as I think about it, I do. I’m never alone because of…

The Companions Are

By-Amanda D. Petty

I have a few companions.

They are teaching me.

No one knows what they do.

It feels like; you’re in a tight box.

When you want out, you can’t.

My companions are:

My speech,

My involuntary movement,

My eyesight,

My legs,

My back,

My wheelchair,

My Cerebral Palsy,

My brain.

With these things, I’m educating people.

These things are touching people lives.

For me, these things are a pain.

People can’t understand them.

Thank you for changing me.

Thank you for challenging me.

An Uplifting: We truly want to thank you for reading this. We’re promising, we do know how you truly feel. It will get better, don’t give up. We know some days are bad: physical or emotional or both. On those days, you want to die. We know that firsthand; what help us the most is God. We hope this issue will help you. Just don’t give up. Heavenly Father knows your pains; maybe that’s why we’re here, giving you strength for a new hour. We have a song for you; my friend, we really do know how you feel.