Disability

Getting my head wrapped around applying for disability is not an easy thing. I'm not really disabled, am I? I can't drive. I walk with a walker. I only had two seizures last year. Both were doozies. 

The west coast voice

Told me:

If you don’t apply for disability

There is no chance

You will get it.

This makes sense

Yet

Yet

Yet

I am not disabled.

No.

Denial comes

In so many forms.

The west coast voice

A gentle voice

An understanding voice

Whose daughter

Had a seizure on a train

In London

During a bombing.

Ah

But that’s different

No it isn’t

One seizure a year

Is not ok

Denial comes

In so many forms.

If you don’t apply

There is no chance

You will get it.

Create your own binders

Sometimes things are best heard in threes.

Create

Your own binders.

Open them up.

Let the pages fly.

Let the words loose

Into the world.

They are your voice.

They are your hands.

Open them.

They are not meant

To be contained

Anywhere.

Keep practicing.

Drive (if you can).

Walk (if you can).

Write (if you can).

Create your own binders

No matter what.

Open them.

Open them.

Open them.

Let them go.

Let them go.

Let them go.

Do not leave them behind.

Leave them forward.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Sometimes things are best heard

In threes.