Pretty Petty’s Poem for the Disabled
Hello Pretty Pets, how are you doing?
Let us introduced ourselves: we’re Amanda D. Petty, Eric Brown, Anna Shepherd, and James W. Hill, and we’re poets. This is a very special issue or version that we’re doing. Eric, 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. In 2012, she thought of creating an online business: “Pretty Petty Poetry”. This version is a part of our business. Eric is taking over this issue.
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; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKaonWdYghw. My friend, we really do know how you feel.