I try to lift up a little more

Than I know I can

I don't like to be sore

I want to be looked at as what I am

I want to be ignorant

So I can be confident

I want people to see me on the inside

And right now ignorance is what I do to hide the outside

I'm fine

I will say

Because I want to see twenty-twenty, eye to eye

I can do anything I want in a certain way

I want you to know

I know what I can and can't say

There are people who do not understand

What it is like to have a disability in your hand

They may laugh or tease or jeer

But it is their own ignorance they fear

And it is our job to be mature and not to care

And all our life may we have it pulling at our hair

But the outer shell is all they can see

And don't have many possibilities

But to look down at those who cant see as well as them

But they don't know how much we really can

I wish no one cared about the outside

It is only an image that holds a million lies

And all the truths and wonders are on the inside

I don't care what or who but it is always the same

The outer shell was created in for something to hide in

A protector from the rain

Can we turn inside out and keep that part in?

If only, then a new world would begin

I don't want to be lower than any of you

As equality is my point of view

And I can do what you can do, but I want you to be aware

That a disability will never chain me to a chair

And if you wont listen I'll put ignorance back on

To hide the outer shell of me

And my heart and soul will be all you'll ever see