Disabled Poets Society

Being driven by others who just don't see your illness since it's not a broken arm or leg keep saying I'm special I can win the being disqualified because you never attended college. nor because you suffered injury or illness being told you just. cannot compete struggling. because someone said you and your mind cannot write. its own thoughts searching. finding real hope within The Special Olympics where you are among your own peers why one must believe writing poetry is no different that being able to express yourself through poetry and song is a gift no one has the right to take it away from you the feeling being free in your mind to be challenged to soar in spite being quote unquote broken silencing yourself words unspoken Maya Angelou wrote of great suffrage depression and abuse as did Virginia Woolf during her madness mental disease her best poetry was created including Emily Dickinson Edgar Alan Poe William Shakespeare many great writers mentally disabled persons think write read and sing teaching us about mental illness why they have a lot to say well in my book I think that it's okay