06-28-2026, 06:28 PM
"Those who tell you to fear
have the most to lose when you choose love."
These are the most powerful lines in the poem also because they are in the clearest language and register. Good poetic style rescues prose argument.
My advice is to be guided by those lines and avoid the vague use of the words like "they" and "them" even though they have a rhetorical appeal because general moral statements carry less weight than precise contextual ones. Maybe you simply need a stronger narrative about for example the experience of being "without legs".
What do you think?
have the most to lose when you choose love."
These are the most powerful lines in the poem also because they are in the clearest language and register. Good poetic style rescues prose argument.
My advice is to be guided by those lines and avoid the vague use of the words like "they" and "them" even though they have a rhetorical appeal because general moral statements carry less weight than precise contextual ones. Maybe you simply need a stronger narrative about for example the experience of being "without legs".
What do you think?
(06-27-2026, 01:16 AM)Bunx Wrote: Them
Hide them from you
for you might find the truth.
Disabilities often have no cure
we'll lock them up to feel secured.
Put them away for their delusions.
Fine their families, put them in institutions.
How dare they dream of something more
than the help they can't afford.
Turn them into problems with a price tag.
Paint them as parasites, take their hope away.
Invest in their suffering then get paid.
America works in a predatory haze.
Though the truth is,
those who can't feel their legs
will climb the capital if it takes a day.
They can be treated, and be stable
for decades to life if society is able.
Those who tell you to fear
have the most to lose when you choose love.