Poem for me

Some say I am disabled

but you know that isn't true.

I simply have a challenge

a little different from you.

A slight inconvenience has taught me things

they could not know.

Each obstacle is a victory,

Enabling me to grow.

I'm not really any different.

I cry. I laugh.

I don't want to be treated

as if I'm not a person any more.

Out of good intentions,

People are afraid to let me try.

But sometimes I have to fall,

And sometimes I need to cry.

God gives me the strength and dignity

The courage to be all that I can be.

For he doesn't see me as disabled,

He just sees me as me.

BJ MORBITZER