Being me is helping kids with disabilities

A question formally asked in grade school,

What do you want to be when you grow up

An astronaut, an olympic gymnast, police man

Yet when I was in grade school, my dream was to be me

they would say, dear, what is it you aspire to be? and I would simply reply

just silly old me and when in high school they say get “serious,”

isn’t being me serious enough?

Clarifying being me would be so easy to do

yet none ever cared enough to ask, let me tell you

Being me is to take care of the kids who can’t speak for themselves

to protect those who are a bit harder to understand

and why is it that their disabilities prevent them from being them, and me from being me

when anyone who has what is called a disability, differently abled is the best way to say it I believe,

is hurt or bullied in any way, you aren’t just hurting them, you are hurting me 

so maybe that’s why the teachers never got

why I said I wanted to be me, oh what a big joke

but yet here I dream of simply being me 

protecting and loving all the people who have disabilities