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The Other Disability

By Elton Camp
Not many people would dare
Mock someone in a wheelchair
None are cruel enough to decline
Patience and kindness to the blind
Long experience forces me to say
Hearing impairments not that way
I understand some cases of hating
Constant Huhs become irritating
Hearing aids some deride
With a phony sense of pride
To all it becomes quite clear
They dont really try to hear
I always try as hard as I can
Whats said, to understand
With total strangers, I can get by
Family treatment makes me sigh
Often, all of it I have heard
Except one crucial word
Listen! is the snappish retort
To which the cruel will resort
Or raise volume a terrible degree
Though the ear pain they can see
The only escape open to me
Is simply to nod and agree
Then the sneer that Ive come to dread
You dont really know what I said!
The hurt, I do my best to hide
They dont know how hard I tried

Tears in my eyes, I blink away


And hope therell be a better day

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