Labeled Disabled

I walk along and sing a song

being on top of the world

But then I fear of what I hear

in all the whispers hurled

When honestly, they hurt me,

deep down inside not being

rightly included

As I am laughed at and made fun of

even shunned as if I’ve intruded?

Like a clown made up in a frown

as though I’m a joke

Excluded as a dude rudely

abused, being

refused, and poked

I am someone misunderstood

mostly disrespected

Feeling like a piece of candy

spit out and rejected!

Like a weed in the middle of a field

pulled out by the root

Like a person behind

the backstage curtain

never playing the role that suits

Feeling disowned like being thrown

into a pail of garbage

like a ball of paper crinkled up

for later and thought of as

a failure discarded

You see, it’s like I’m free,

but swimming in a fishbowl instead

As others have gold, mine is dull

colored dismal and dead

I wish I was a fish with a color of bliss

feeling like the rest

But all I find in my time of dieing

is swimming behind the jest!

Sometimes I want to escape

this world feeling not worth a dime

In this landscape I can’t

Stand straight dealing

with this earth of mine

I want to feel the difference

of being one of the same

But with the sadness I feel madness
as gladness is the game
You see all I need is to

Be set free from being
Seen as a crook

As I rage off these pages

In case my cage is shook

How can I show you I am stable?

and more than being able?

The song I sing dreams of a scene

of four legs, not a three legged table

But still I feel unfulfilled

when you fill me full of shame

As I thirst for just the first thing

for you to treat me the same

But this stigma is my prison

As I am chained to a fable

Your decision in this division

Does not envision me from this label
Open your heart and be a part

of the person I certainly am

Treat me the way I dream

Redeemed from being

a disabled man

And break through into

the truth!

Empowering for how

we have improved

as one endued

in the power of now!