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
Copyright © Yolanda Nicholsen | Year Posted 2021
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