Re: [QUAD-L] A really cool poem I found in the draw

[David K. Kelmer]

Hi Bobbie,

 

Thanks for sharing that poem.  It was in '76 that I had my accident and I remember how things looked back then.  Sure have come a long way in what seems a short time.

 

With Love,

CtrlAltDel aka Dave
C4/5 Complete - 29 Years Post
Texas, USA 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Hi All,

    I just stumbled upon this poem that was written about me back in 1976, three years post by a friend who was only 15 at the time. And I wanted to share it with you all.

 

                                            "A Poem for Bobbie"

 

        A normal life i will never lead,

        or to walk or run at an average speed.

        I sit in my chair with the wheels on the end,

        resting my legs which will never bend.

        People wonder as they stop and stare,

        how a life like this I could possibly bear.

        But they are to blind to stop and see,

        that living a life, no matter how it be,

        is the greatest joy one can ever know,

        And should not be thought be thought of as only pity and woe.

        The normal people say, as I wonder with surprise,

        that a life is not worth living if you cannot rise.

        In a chair to which I am constantly bound,

        they think love is something I've never found.

        They pity me and i wonder why,

        for it is for them that I sit and cry.

        The "normal" people is what they are called.

        But this is a term to which I am appalled.

        They call theirs a life, and they tend to insist,

        But a life I live, and they only exist.

 

                                                Carol Scerbo

                                                Age 15

                                                June, 1976