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Disability Advocacy

It's funny how one might look down upon disability And not regard it as an integral part of the society Only for then to realize that in us still lies the ability To cast a vote, and take part in changing the society Cause a vote once casted takes its own cause And a vote doesn't have a disability So it counts and when it's cast it sets out a course In the many numbers that would want accountability Many times for the sake of image in politics Disabled might get the limelight And show people how they care about us in their tricks To get votes but still our plight won't be given the light We've seen how for just being differently abled One is not seen as a worthy candidate Instead told to wait it out, cause we labeled Labeled as people who get in through nominations to date Yet we can stand and chant out our slogans And come up with better policies for us But the same hierarchy of government organs That claim to support our status, are still not working for us And to date, we still facing discrimination But we still keep voting for change Voting in a better government for the good of the nation So that one day, we as the persons with disability feel the change The PO£T

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