Cover your eyes and envision our darkness.
Could you handle being blind for a week?
Cover your ears and try to hear me whisper.
Do you think signing is easy?
Try to be me and survive real life.
It's harder than you may think.
Spend a month in a wheelchair.
Remember not to use your legs.
Slap braces on your legs
and try to race with your friends.
Being disabled is the most
difficult life for any one person.
Yet, we're not given a choice.
Put mittens on your hands.
Can you draw a straight line?
If you were born without legs,
could you get around town?
We learn to adapt every day.
We never asked to have disabilities.
Everything happens for a reason.
Whenever you pick on us or turn away;
we ask of you to try to be us
for an extended length of time.
If you're going to laugh or call us names;
first cover your eyes and ears.
Push yourself around in a manual wheelchair.
Before you say one more nasty comment;
try to picture yourself as one of us
for the rest of your life.
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