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.