A BALLAD ON DISABELITY
A BALLAD ON DISABELITY
If I was and able daughter of Australia
I would be a true Aussie
I could be a dentist,
A lawyer or
The next female Prime Minister
Of my country,
If I was an able daughter of Australia
I would be true – blue,
But I’m labelled with;
Depression
Adult attention deficit disorder and
Bipolar –
Ranked on the social strata
Lower than the frogs bottom,
If I was an able daughter of Australia
I would be a real Aussie –
From my high horse reminding
The mad, the blind and the lame –
In ancient Greece, such newborns
Were rolled down from the top of Olympus,
If I was an able daughter of Australia
I would be true – blue,
Labels are sticking,
Mental illness and
All description of Otherness –
Invented by Sophists
With intellect
Lower than the frogs bottom.
Labels must be ripped off –
I am indeed an able daughter of Australia
Not only having will power – I am will power,
Light on the top of Olympus:
I am that I am
Mover of the wheels of evolution and
The Master Artist beyond
The hue of true blue.