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Wheelchair Reversal

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LightOverpowers58

Published: Aug 29, 2012

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Literature Text

_{stubbed, chubby fingers suffocate
everything they hold, squeezing onyx ink
onto snow white pages—forcing each
character—b e g the hardest letters to write.
blue lines running horizontal, space slowly
filling with shaky scrawl; aching to tell thousands
of stories—unable to do more than a
single letter [25 others: illegible scribbles].
oxygen mask strapped, siphoning
choking, raspy breaths into the open air
cast away by another…
feet plastered to squares of metal—black cushions
stark contrast—a single hand resting on the red joystick
whir whir whir—be-ep be-ep be-ep
ringing sounds: sure signs of wheelchair reversal—
—if only there was such a thing as life reversal…
be-ep be-ep be-ep
…what I wouldn't give…}

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My cousin, 16, is confined to a wheelchair for life...she needs an oxygen mask at all times, cannot walk, and can barely speak. Yet she still has brain capacity _{_{besides, who can kill their own child?}}

This piece was written within three different poems. The ideas I wrote on paper kept morphing, nothing coming out the way I wanted--or needed...until the first lines of this poem flew onto the paper...

Written to: "Crying" by J.Reyez.

NOTE: The song's name is "This Pain"...he modified the original name a few years ago... When I downloaded the song it was still called "Crying" and that is what I know it as, hence the note addition and not a simple switch.

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