I AM A PERSON

 I am a person, who happens to have a disability,


A lot of people see me as one who has no capability.


I am a person, who has got good caring heart,


Who has remained unseen right from the start.


I am a person who has finished school,


where I learned that teachers and peers see me as a fool.


I am a person who feels hurt every day,


Because people say mean things and smack me out of the way.


I am a person who deserves to be fed,


Not sent away every night hungry and off to bed.


I am a person whose sexual boundaries have been broken leaving a void inside me,


That has kept me as a prisoner instead letting me be free.


I am a person who deserves to be treated with dignity, honor, and respect,


Instead I feel like I am a reject.


I am a person who feels broken into pieces like is a puzzle,


because the words inside me had been muzzled.


I am a person who deserves to be treated well,


Instead I am living inside a jail cell.


I am a person who needs to be heard.


Yet no one has stopped and cared enough to listen to any of my words.