It’s important to find many avenues for people to express their experiences and the change they want to see.
This is especially true for anyone with disabilities. The “usual” avenues may not always be the easiest. But that should never prevent our voices from being heard. And it cannot stop us from making a contribution to building a more compassionate world.
That is why, together with friends and colleagues who also experience chronic pain and related conditions, I helped to pull together a book of poems that explore the nature of our diverse experiences.
What we created, I believe, helps us to get down to the real depths of how our conditions impact us and our relationships, and the changes we’d like to see and help create in the world. That’s the amazing power of poetry – that ability to express an emotion or a thought in ways that sometimes escape normal conversation.
You can find the poems here.
I really hope you enjoy them!
By Katie.