Anne: I Actually Enjoy Being Me

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.