"BROKEN ARE THE WALKING"
truth...through a different lens...
“I see you.
You, with legs that move but never take you anywhere worth going.
You, with hands that grip phones tighter than purpose.
You, with eyes that scroll past pain and hearts too dull to feel it.
You call me disabled.
You pity the chair, the wheels, the way my body doesn’t obey the way yours does….but I see the truth: you’re the crippled ones.
You wake up every day with a body unbroken and still waste it.
You stand tall but kneel to likes, clout, and comfort.
You run…but only from truth, from love, from anything that might demand courage.
I roll through life with steel beneath me and fire inside!!
You walk through life like ghosts with working limbs, soulless, soft, scared.
You think my scars are ugly? I wear them like FUCKING WAR PAINT!!!
Yours are invisible….but they reek…
Fear… Entitlement…Apathy….
You wear your dysfunction like perfume and pretend you’re whole.
Let me ask you something….
When was the last time your legs CHARED toward someone who needed saving?
When did your voice RISE for the voiceless?
When did your heart BURN for more than yourself?
I can’t walk…but I’m moving through life.
You're standing still…with no excuse.
So yeah, I’m in a wheelchair….
but don’t you fucking dare call me the broken one…
…cuz I’ve seen the real paralysis….
…and it’s you.
”
This is profoundly moving. We all have our scars and you are right some of them are not visible to the extent yours are. I appreciate the analogy of others taking for granted their privilege, and not using it for good, to create a little more light in someone's life and hope in their spirits. I myself have gone through the fire, some which was ignited from others pain and suffering, some which was ignited from an ambition sparked in my soul watching the wheels of Injustice go round and round. I see crippled and I do not feel sorry, I feel no pity because I know they see the world from a different lens, and I hope they recognized their beauty and their unique perspective which has so much to offer the world.
Very powerful, Trevor!