I hate when people refer to me as special,
Because there is nothing special about me except that I’m a cripple.
I live alone in a chair of misery,
And I am all I am or ever will be.
I can’t fight your wars or win your race.
I can’t make love to a woman or caress her face.
People feel sorry for men like me,
But I don’t want your damn pity I want you to see.
I have dreams, hopes, and fantasies that will never be real, that I believe.
Don’t stare at me with tears in your eyes, because I don’t see your pain. I see your lies.
You say you would take my legs and give me yours in return.
I say your full of shit and the rage inside me burns.
I cry aloud, “God why me. What did I do for this disease?”
I don’t understand. I don’t why.
I want to leave this chair so I can fly high.
To you God who made me this way; and maybe soon there will come a day...
When I can walk, run, dance, and say;
I am special because God made me that way.
your poem reminds us that we are not
our bodies but immortal spirit
thank you