Tuesday, April 9, 2013

A POEM ABOUT ATAPIM

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Atapim was born war.
He looses his sight before he could see,
He loses his legs before he could walk,
He loses his hand before he could touch,
He loses his teeth before he could bite,
Disability was everything to him and he was everything to disability in him
When we eat we hide him
When we were traveling we left him
When we shared some jokes we despised him
When we watched our nature we rejected him
When we were reading we spat on him
Ohh Atapim - He wondered
He scavenged for food when we threw it
Disability was everything to him and he was everything to disability in him 
We never knew that
Atapim had rights like ours
He should learn like us
He should eat like us and with us
He should travel like us
He should crack jokes like us
He should be given shelter just like us
He should be loved like us
Ooh my Atapim,
Disability was everything to him and he was everything to disability in him

We should report those who hide Atapim
We should report those who hate people like him
We should report those who spat on people like him
We should report those who despised people like him
Oh, my Atapim
Disability was everything to him and he was everything to disability in him

After all this Atapim was not his wish or his plan
It was not his ambition to be born this way
To live in this miserable life
If disability was a coat I would take it off
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