And You thought being blind was a disability

You called her disabled.

That what she had was just a ¨ disability¨.

¨She can't even look in mirror.¨

But yet she saw more than anyone that could see could.

She saw beneath the skin, beneath the pretty faces, beneath the cute clothes.

It hurts her that she can't see the ones she loves.

She won't ever get to see her children's accomplishments,

Or the look of her father's face as she walks onto the stage to receive her diploma.

All her big sports dreams are just gone.

She won't see her once home run to win the game, that is now just a blur.

Just a big black dark screen.

Her beautiful paintings now become blobs on a piece of paper.

You'll tell her it's beautiful but what she can't see is the lying on your face,

The quiver of your lip, as you try to tell yourself you're only helping her.

But once again you treat her as if being blind was a disability.

You'll make yourself feel good and invite her to all your slumber parties,

But then you'll throw in the question ¨ does my outfit look good”,

Just to make sure you got your joke in for the night.

You think you're bringing her down,

But yet she can't see you.

And that's not because she's blind,

It is because she's too strong for her ¨disability¨ faze her.

But that was beauty of it.

You think she can't see because she is blind.

But what you can't see is how her disability makes her whole life just a little better.

She doesn't care what she looks like in the morning when girls are taking 2 hours to get ready.

She replays her home run in her head over and over again

because her imagination is greater than the mind.

She finds true friends that get over the fact that she is blind.

She will fall in love with someone not by his looks,

But by his heart.

By being unable to see, it lead her into a world of amazing smell and feelings.

A world of so many different sounds.

She could hear you all call her different,weird, unusual, eye catching.

She heard the jokes and she felt your sympathy.

But what she did not feel for was the world disability.

You all said she had a ¨disability¨, but what she had was the ability to do what most can't.

For being blind was no disability.

By: LEH