Friday, January 15, 2016

I Have No Words

I have no words to speak tonight,
Reading over and over how we shouldn't be born.

Too much of a burden to educate,
We should be corralled into those "special" schools.

I have no words to speak tonight,
The ableism and shouts for eugenics weave their fingers around my throat silencing my screams.

You call for screening of my kind before marriage and procreation,
Your abhorrence and ignorance distracting you from the beauty and joy of my family.

I have no words to speak tonight,
Beaten down by the cruelness of this world.

They say we don't know how to feel,
If only they knew the weight of feeling too much.

I have no words to speak tonight,
The heartache of what this world holds for my children an agonizing reality I cannot accept.

Stand tall and proud again I will,
Most importantly for my children, but also for the misunderstood child I was.

I have no words to speak tonight,
The sorrow threatening to weigh me down.

Silenced, temporarily, but not for long;
For with tomorrow a new day dawns.


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