Self-Advocates Sonnet

This is one of the poems that I submitted to the Perspectives Anthology 2

Self-Advocates Sonnet

Shall I consider how my day is spent

in this land, far and great and wide

where I seek what others try to hide

examining where rules and ethics bent

twisted, reworded my nature present

while armed with truth, I speak to chide

too often, my voice cut off, silenced, denied

shouted down by demands for births mine-kin prevent

whilst ignoring human rights, the basics we need

another sigh of patience, I maintain to do my best

to advocate, create changes to the current state

of services, supports, implement at too slow speed

I tire, but have far to go before I dare to rest

For the sake of life, we cannot afford to wait