content warning: talks about disability inspiration porn. and it’s derisive, as it should be \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n
I didn’t understand then
\nbut time and space makes me realize
\nhow much we put people like you (like me)
\n‘on display’.
\nYou wanted, and so you did,
\nand it never mattered that you were blind.
\nHow did you keep your patience?
\nGetting random ‘rewards’
\nsimply for trying new things?
\nBeing held up as an example?<\/p>\n
How did you keep your patience?
\nYour hands were so soft,
\nand I told you I was afraid,
\nand you told me it was fine,
\nyou had me.
\nAnd you did –
\nyou knew what it was like to not see
\nand you lead me where we needed to go.<\/p>\n
I don’t know how any of you didn’t scream.
\nPeople talked down to you, talked around you,
\nlike being blind meant you couldn’t
\nand being deaf meant you couldn’t
\nand being in a wheelchair meant you couldn’t
\nbut the whole time you – all of you – understood.<\/p>\n
You helped me with a lot.
\nSometimes, when I am scared,
\nand am blind to the future,
\nI remember your soft hands,
\nand the joking about how scared I was,
\nand the way you loved me
\nenough to guide me
\nthrough a silly, pointless activity.<\/p>\n
Wherever you are now, content warning: talks about disability inspiration porn. and it’s derisive, as it should be \ud83d\ude1b I didn’t understand then but time and space makes me realize how much we put people like you (like me) ‘on display’. You wanted, and so you did, and it…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marathon-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119351,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119344\/revisions\/119351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI miss you, but I like to think
\nthat you’re happy.
\nNot successful in the way of
\nsocietal expectations<\/em>,
\nBut successful in the way of
\na life on your terms<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"