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Confined to a Wheelchair
by Tom Heeren → (All Poetry by Tom Heeren)
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              CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR

 

Confined to a wheelchair ain’t easy

 ‘cause I’m physically challenged.

It’s my nanny, but is also my independence

    Which opens the world.

 

It isn’t a happy memory to be called

 a cripple

or sit in an uncomfortable electric horse

 that makes me real ANGRY and unhappy.

I’ve spent lots of days, months and years

 asking myself, “Why am I confined to a wheelchair?”

 

I am in a strange world with lots of people

 who run and walk in a blissful field.

I have a desire to be independent

   From the dark ages.

 

I’ll always be physically challenged

  Until death parts me.

 

 


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 Reviews of "Confined to a Wheelchair"
Reviewed by Edwin Hurdle
Reviewed on November 30, 2008
You have express deeply what its like to be in a wheelchair and the hardships that it comes with the territory.Thank you for expressing your poetry and sharing your world with the rest of the readers.take care and God bless you

Edwin

Reviewed by John Leko
Reviewed on November 29, 2008
...sensitive portrait in pen...physically challenged...and yet the mind and heart...travels keenly...perhaps faster than many afoot.
excellent write Thomas...
John

Reviewed on November 29, 2008
Powerful write; as one who is physically disabled myself, this one spoke volumes to me. (I'm not confined to a wheelchair, but I do walk with two crutches, and I have other issues.) Very well done; bravo!


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