Girl Disability Poems

I know what it costs
to parent a tyrant
24/7
52 weeks/year
and yet avoid judging,
feeling guilty,
self-blaming shame
for all I am not sufficient,
yet.

I remember learning curious distinctions
between genuine remorse
given,...

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Longing

Little mermaid on the rock, 
Wishing and wondering, 
What it would be like, 
just to walk?

Little girl in a chair, 
riding around on wheels of...

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Divorce Decree
The Last Word...
	
You and me, 
we are free...
from each other.

You should be happy, 
I no longer have the right;
to make your dinner, 
clean your...

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The Pizza Princess

No job is worth your life. 
Sweet little girl, 
someone's daughter, 
I don't even know...
You should not be dead. 
The world is all...

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The Red Bag

Big and jolly, lots of folly, 
what do you have in the bag?
It is full of toys and gifts. 
It is full of...

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The Ax

Sometimes death is easier. 
Wow, that is terrible. 
Divorce, rips families to shreds. 
This is mine-that is not.
Confusion and conflict. 
The kids… oh yeah,...

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The Tank 

On empty, we drove on. 
There was no place to stop anyway. 
We got in the car before dawn, 
the kids in the...

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Yellow Bird

My little sunshine colored bird, I am so proud of you. 
You did not walk when others ran. 
You did not talk when other...

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Hand Made Things

Small things made my ready hands, giving of themselves and their time. 
Time; their very lives, a measured existence between birth, life and...

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Couch Potato

You are sitting on my couch, now. 
You are watching TV with my kid. 
Yes, she is old enough to sit there. 
She is...

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Goodnight

One night, while saying prayers…
a little girl asked, “What is heaven like?”

Her mother over heard her…
and said, 
“Say the words I told you, 
just as...

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I'm not broken, 
dont look down on me,
dont push me around. 
dont laugh when I ask a question in class.
dont smirk when Im confused.
dont make...

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