Poems About Disability Seeking Honest Critique
#disability
Identity Crisis
What kind of person
cannot tell the difference
between euphoria and despair?
Though poles apart,
they have the same unsettling effect
and evoke shadows
of each other.
Are there others like her,
who fall through the cracks
between the able-bodied and disabled worlds?
Uncomfortable in both,
she feels like a fraud —
while trying to appear 'normal'
and when letting her guard slip.
How can she find a way
to feed a restless mind
that never stays still;
while protecting her fragile emotions
from...
cannot tell the difference
between euphoria and despair?
Though poles apart,
they have the same unsettling effect
and evoke shadows
of each other.
Are there others like her,
who fall through the cracks
between the able-bodied and disabled worlds?
Uncomfortable in both,
she feels like a fraud —
while trying to appear 'normal'
and when letting her guard slip.
How can she find a way
to feed a restless mind
that never stays still;
while protecting her fragile emotions
from...
#identity
#MentalHealth
#disability
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Myriad of scars
Long ago, before she was ever hunted by the beast,
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The harsh truth, lesions, white, many, & irreparable.
Multiple sclerosis. Many losses, her heart was shattered in sorrow.
Her mind, now pregnant, birthed new sorrow.
She felt herself collapsing beneath the weight of the beast.
She no longer knew who she was. She was broken, irreparable.
Drowning in a tumultuous salty sea,...
She had only drank from the cool river of freedom.
One fateful day it happened; she was caught
unaware. Her body, suddenly foreign, to move was a struggle.
The harsh truth, lesions, white, many, & irreparable.
Multiple sclerosis. Many losses, her heart was shattered in sorrow.
Her mind, now pregnant, birthed new sorrow.
She felt herself collapsing beneath the weight of the beast.
She no longer knew who she was. She was broken, irreparable.
Drowning in a tumultuous salty sea,...
#strength
#illness
#MentalHealth
#disability
#determination
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Remains
She whispers, ‘just breathe’
The only way out, is through
Should you fall beneath
Truth laid bare for you
The only way out is through
Weighted pain pulls you under
Truth laid bare for you
Ire turned surrender
Weighted pain pulls you under
The solace of nothingness
Ire turned surrender
Lungs filled with emptiness
The solace of nothingness
How easy to just let go
Lungs filled with emptiness
No grievance toward the throe
Your pain, your grief,...
The only way out, is through
Should you fall beneath
Truth laid bare for you
The only way out is through
Weighted pain pulls you under
Truth laid bare for you
Ire turned surrender
Weighted pain pulls you under
The solace of nothingness
Ire turned surrender
Lungs filled with emptiness
The solace of nothingness
How easy to just let go
Lungs filled with emptiness
No grievance toward the throe
Your pain, your grief,...
#illness
#MentalHealth
#disability #vulnerability
#disability #vulnerability
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Normal is overrated
Intake
Inflate
Digest
Deflate
Let them laugh,
It's obvious the joke is on me.
Hang there
Hang tight
Like a piñata
My torment
Brings them joy
Why not,
Who cares?.
Those society have learnt to make fun of the less
What's right,
But left?
The physically disabled
And mentally challenged
That we've learnt to dehumanize
Meme them
Mock them
Screw them
Use them
And as clowns paint them
Why is it that so few actually care?
Spit on it,...
Inflate
Digest
Deflate
Let them laugh,
It's obvious the joke is on me.
Hang there
Hang tight
Like a piñata
My torment
Brings them joy
Why not,
Who cares?.
Those society have learnt to make fun of the less
What's right,
But left?
The physically disabled
And mentally challenged
That we've learnt to dehumanize
Meme them
Mock them
Screw them
Use them
And as clowns paint them
Why is it that so few actually care?
Spit on it,...
#oppression
#HumanRights
#inequality
#disability
#manipulation
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12 Comments
Sexual Determination
#sex
#disability
#determination
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3 Comments
Unreality
As daylight beckons,
Physical challenges arise.
Pain, injuries, fatigue;
Clumsiness and fumbling fingers struggling to function.
Perhaps you won’t notice.
The mental game is tough too:
An attitude of kindness to body and trueness to self
Vies for prominence with
Strength and independence.
At fleeting glance, all is well.
Even close inspection can’t detect
Groaning effort required of body and mind
to be Normal.
Appearances deceive but
Expectations and dreams mislead more.
Anything is possible by myself
But at...
Physical challenges arise.
Pain, injuries, fatigue;
Clumsiness and fumbling fingers struggling to function.
Perhaps you won’t notice.
The mental game is tough too:
An attitude of kindness to body and trueness to self
Vies for prominence with
Strength and independence.
At fleeting glance, all is well.
Even close inspection can’t detect
Groaning effort required of body and mind
to be Normal.
Appearances deceive but
Expectations and dreams mislead more.
Anything is possible by myself
But at...
#LifeStruggles
#illness
#honesty #disability
#honesty #disability
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I SEE YOU IN THE I.C.U.
I see you in the I.C.U.
The silent buzzing of eternal light
shifts with opening eyes into fuzzy disguise
warm water falling like virgin silk
upon my numb and vulnerable skin
soft hands caress each part of me
my eye traces across the soft subtle features
of delicate faces of angelic creatures
I attempt to speak, a weakened endeavor
soft laughter sputters from their youthful essence
like fluttering butterflies flying forever
then muttering amongst themselves
leaving me isolated in their presence
They believe that I won't remember...
The silent buzzing of eternal light
shifts with opening eyes into fuzzy disguise
warm water falling like virgin silk
upon my numb and vulnerable skin
soft hands caress each part of me
my eye traces across the soft subtle features
of delicate faces of angelic creatures
I attempt to speak, a weakened endeavor
soft laughter sputters from their youthful essence
like fluttering butterflies flying forever
then muttering amongst themselves
leaving me isolated in their presence
They believe that I won't remember...
#illness
#PTSD
#disability
#weakness
#vulnerability
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A Sick Girls Anger Party
There are times when I hide in my room
Angry and bitter I sit here and write
Wanting and wishing that I was different
That being sick didn't bring out the worst in me
I close my eyes and push my fingers against my bruised
Wishing for pain to settle the need for punishment
I never want to be touched when I feel like this
But what I wouldn't give to have a long hug
Where Im the one leaning and not being leaned on
I am the strong one, I am the eldest, the rescuer
But when I just want to be cared for
To be held close and loved on ...
Angry and bitter I sit here and write
Wanting and wishing that I was different
That being sick didn't bring out the worst in me
I close my eyes and push my fingers against my bruised
Wishing for pain to settle the need for punishment
I never want to be touched when I feel like this
But what I wouldn't give to have a long hug
Where Im the one leaning and not being leaned on
I am the strong one, I am the eldest, the rescuer
But when I just want to be cared for
To be held close and loved on ...
#anger
#illness
#MentalHealth
#FeelingTrapped
#disability
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Autism isn't a dirty word
Sometimes I feel as if I'm not playing the same game
There's rules no ones explained to me
If you put me in a situation where I can't escape
I bite my nails, shake my head, avoid your eyes
I can't escape your eyes, seeing everything
You think I'm stupid, It's written all over your face
I'm bad with tone but I've heard yours before
Out of the mouths of the adults in my life their
Fists against the walls by my face screaming at me why can't I be normal
I have forgotten that in this world I'm wrong
Entire organizations color the way my brain is...
There's rules no ones explained to me
If you put me in a situation where I can't escape
I bite my nails, shake my head, avoid your eyes
I can't escape your eyes, seeing everything
You think I'm stupid, It's written all over your face
I'm bad with tone but I've heard yours before
Out of the mouths of the adults in my life their
Fists against the walls by my face screaming at me why can't I be normal
I have forgotten that in this world I'm wrong
Entire organizations color the way my brain is...
#rejection
#heartbroken
#disability
#Autism
#vulnerability
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Acceptance
Into one moment of consideration
Fly many years of thoughts;
Plans spinning in a whirlpool of
Love, laughter and colourful memories.
From the chaos, fragments of
Forgotten dreams appear.
Small snatches of the past threaten to
Unseat the future.
For still there remains
A desire to go and do, be and see;
A life driven by perpetual rhythm;
A pressing weight of exacting expectation.
Displaced by cool self-awareness,
Distant dreams evaporate,
Leaving in their wake the pursuit of glittering lights
Of a...
Fly many years of thoughts;
Plans spinning in a whirlpool of
Love, laughter and colourful memories.
From the chaos, fragments of
Forgotten dreams appear.
Small snatches of the past threaten to
Unseat the future.
For still there remains
A desire to go and do, be and see;
A life driven by perpetual rhythm;
A pressing weight of exacting expectation.
Displaced by cool self-awareness,
Distant dreams evaporate,
Leaving in their wake the pursuit of glittering lights
Of a...
#LifeGoals
#disability
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3 Comments
Identity
Who do you see?
The abled one who can’t
Or the disabled one who can?
Two different sides to
The same contradictory coin.
It all depends on your perspective.
From the vantage point of she
Who looks like one,
Behaves like the other
And aspires to be a superhuman
It is impossible to tell.
The abled one who can’t
Or the disabled one who can?
Two different sides to
The same contradictory coin.
It all depends on your perspective.
From the vantage point of she
Who looks like one,
Behaves like the other
And aspires to be a superhuman
It is impossible to tell.
#identity
#SelfReflection
#disability
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The Spirit of Fear
Fear causes you to stay
a victim
legally bound by darkness,
ongoing cycles
the return of familiar spirits,
A battlefield of adversaries,
regression rises out of its grave.
But a life submitted to Christ,
With your faith
in Abba Father's grace
to a whole-soul,
ejects you to freedom,
prosperity, a destiny beautifully paved.
a victim
legally bound by darkness,
ongoing cycles
the return of familiar spirits,
A battlefield of adversaries,
regression rises out of its grave.
But a life submitted to Christ,
With your faith
in Abba Father's grace
to a whole-soul,
ejects you to freedom,
prosperity, a destiny beautifully paved.
#anxiety
#MentalHealth
#PTSD
#disability
#vulnerability
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DU Poetry : Poems About Disability Seeking Honest Critique