😃Disabled Poetry😃: Disabled--June-2015

Pretty Petty’s Poem for the Disabled

Hello Pretty Pets, how are you doing?

Let us introduced ourselves: we’re Amanda D. Petty and Eric Brown, and we’re poets. This is a very special issue or version that we’re doing. We are disabled or handicapped too. Amanda has Spastic Cerebral Palsy. Eric has High Functioning Autistic. 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.

Amanda’s professor gave her an assignment about handicapped or disabled. Before this business, she was very shy about being handicapped and that won’t change. But, doing this issue, she can be herself. This poem is one of her favorites. Enjoy.

I Am Here

By-Amanda D. Petty

Can you look past my handicap for once?

I am here; real emotions,

Weak bones can be loved,

But, you just see my wheels.

Why can’t you see the real me?

I am here; free soul,

Singing spirit,

But, you see a broken body.

Reach beyond yourself and see what you don’t know.

Lecturing you to see the real beauty from inside.

Feeling pain: emotional and physical, just hurts.

But, you use the devil acts still.

Can you view me, as a person?

I am here; passionate by trade,

Succoring people,

But, you just see my motor.

Why can’t you observe me?

I am here; trying to live,

Trying to be cheerful,

But, you don’t SEE me.

Why?

An Uplifting Note: 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.