You can’t even imagine how dire it would be
if by chance or by choice your child ends up like me
and I’m smiling and thinking of all that I am
and I’m counting my blessings rejoicing at length
in my awesome adventure on a wondrous path
in the things that I learned and created with that
in the people I met who enjoyed knowing me
in the worlds I imagine to set my mind free
in the words I unravel like pearls on a string
in the luck and the love and the joy that I bring,
in the fact that I’m different from somebody else
in the feelings and thoughts that I get to express
in the love in my soul, in the things I believe,
in the choices I make, in the visions I live
in the life that I lead and I’m free to uphold
in the fact that I’m here to experience it all
even out on the streets and with nothing to eat
being me is a privilege, a grace and a gift.
