They Cut, We Bleed. (2016 Edit)

Disabled people,

dying and desperate

We are scared,

At government hands!

For our lives, 

We shout, 

Please understand

Why we must get them out! 

Independence taken,

We're shaken,

By an envelope

On the mat

'It's the cost', they say,

Benefits lost,

Because you're just,

Not worth that!

I would give anything

To be free from disability,

'Scrounger rhetoric'

Kills a piece of me.

Confidence gone,

And fear in place

Each one of us, has a name

And a face.

We are begging

And pleading,

Because when they cut,

We are bleeding! 

 

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