World Cerebral Palsy Day

Today I get to celebrate a very important part of me. My disability. CP. and to honor that I wanted to share a poem that I wrote about a year ago. my heart's cry for the disabled community.


Be proud of you. be proud of yourself and the gifts that you have been given. You are beautiful. you are not a mistake.


my poem is called "A voice for the voiceless. I wrote it on September 25, 2012

A voice for the voiceless

My twin sister and I 

I want to speak up

for those who can't talk

can't walk

can't see

can't interact

there were so many can'ts in that sentence

why not focus on what a person CAN do?

I am sick of this society

pushing us aside

like we don't matter

we do matter

we do have a voice

we were created in the image of God

we are loved and cherished 

we have a life

God has a plan for our lives

we were placed on this earth for a reason

I have a disability

it is part of my life

and something I will fight for

until there is change

till we are recognized 

not just in this country

but around the world

We just want to be loved

have friends

and treated like a normal person

Please look beyond our inabilities

and look at our abilities

look at our hearts

look at what we have

not what we don't have

Just because I have a DISability

doesn't mean that I don't have other amazing abilities

that God has blessed me with 

I have a voice

and I will use it for the voiceless