<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430169" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Wheelchair Olympics</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hardly wheelchair Olympics, dumped in a corner<br>Carer giggles with friends minus little Jack Horner<br>Waiting for the nurse like furniture in the hall<br>Conversations are worse- like I'm not there at all.<br>Speak at me! I feel I should scream<br>I still exist outside your disabled dream<br>I'm not a geriatric who likes the odd tipple<br>My spirit survives; intellect is no cripple<br>My eye absorbs all art; my heart feels deep the prose<br>I live every classic part minus the waist down to the toes.<br>Hardly wheelchair Olympics, touring Sainsbury's with a guide<br>Inspecting every joint of meat, clinging to my pride<br>'Anything you've forgotten? ' my helper opts to talk<br>'Only a bag of frozen peas, and the ability to walk.'<br>Self pity, someone will say, some naive cheeky chappy<br>Whlie i sit in cold light of day, waiting for my nappy.<br>Talking louder is a prerequisite<br>As they stop with grin so plastic<br>Manners to be exquisite<br>When conversing with a 'spastic'<br>Whipers that you hear, idiots that you flee<br>They'll never know that fear of silent soliloquy.<br>So now I smile through the grin of a cynic<br>Dining out in fine eateries galore<br>So glad to break free of that clinic<br>Where my dignity stayed at the door.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Kevin+East">Kevin East</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=430169" data-title="Wheelchair Olympics de Kevin East" data-description="Hardly wheelchair Olympics, dumped in a corner Carer giggles with friends minus little Jack Horner Waiting for the nurse like furniture in the hall Conversations are worse- like I'm not there at all. Speak at me! I feel I should scream I still exi..."></div> </div> </div>

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