not the real you

I don't know you

Because you don't want me to

You hide away the real you

Behind what others expect

Your performance is perfected 

The person you think I want

You were trained well to hide

But I can see your walls are up

It's not for lack of my trying 

Showing an active interest

Grilling you like an interview 

Trying to coax you out

You're not evading my disdain

If you were to be real with me

It'd be no different than now

I definitely don't like the fake you.

mythical money monster

How can you have a billion dollars

And still claim to be human

You are more a mythical creature

Hoarding multiple lifetimes of money

Trading our lives as commodities 

They say absolute power corrupts 

And you are a unimaginable monster

You con us to do more for less

Rent us property on stollen land

Charge extra for our necessities

Trade our livelihood like collectibles 

How you disconnect yourself from us

How you desensitize yourself from us

You must be delusional not to see us

You wear our skin, looking like us,

But you can't win with compassion

You can't own us if you know our pain

Being a billionaire isn't ethical

My words punch up at your morality

You make yourself seperate from us

Hoarding a mountain of gold, a throne,

A dragon kills with its breath

Like a billionaire steals without effort

Your mythic existence exploits us.

replace guns with therapy

Mass murderers are mostly men

They use guns to speak their feelings

Anger being the feeling they're allowed

They take out their disapointment

Their frustration and resentment

Punishing the world as they leave it

Destroying any chance of escape

In an act of violent suicide.

accessibility for all

What if we had equanimity

And accessibility was for all

What if cost was never an argument

We got what we need to do our job

What if productivity was not a value

And they forced us to self care

What if they prioritized our life

And made space for workers needs

What if they didn't make us compete 

And they created a spot for anyone

What if they saw us as irreplaceable 

They were eager to keep us around

What if they saw us as people first

Not dollars and cents on a bottom line

What if we could exist without them

So they never got to exploit us

What if these weren't "what if's"

They were rights instead of wishes.

Self Advocate

You call me an armchair expert

I call me a patient advocate

My persistent research

And being active in my care

Is my superpower, not a fault

You have years of education

But I'm an expert on my body

I know what I'm feeling

My medical history is memory

I don't get to ignore my symptoms

You can run standard tests

And give up if they fail

You can tell me nothings wrong

But your failure to diagnose 

Doesn't change things for me

So let's agree to disagree

When you decide dismiss me

Even if you've given up

I still live in this body

This puzzle comes with me.

why the questions?

What does disability look like?

What does a faker look like?

Why are you so suspicious?

Why is your nose in my business?

Why do you demand an explination?

What is the value of your judgement?

Who said I care what you think?

Who made you think you know me?

Why am I even talking to you?