The Wrong Brain Programming Poem by Paula Glynn

I have the wrong brain programming:
i i i
do do do
not not not
know know know
why why why

I am paralysed
My mind confused
With fear and pain
The hospital bed
Nowhere for the sane
The car impacting my brain
My bicycle on the ground,
Forgotten.

I am trapped
In a non-functional brain
Ignorant people
Assuming I lack knowledge,
Assuming I know only a little
My brain supposedly
Devoid of colours and emotion
Yet they do not see
My mind to be as deep as the ocean
Thoughts and memories
A tidal wave of emotion
In my non-functioning brain,

But I am smart
I have guts and strength
My mind strong
Your mind in the wrong
For love bursting in my heart
Where I am always strong
I always to move along
The path of knowledge
To the almighty,

I may not be you
But I am me
I am now where I fit
I am free where I sit
No one to trap me
No one to trick me.

My brain a miracle
My survival a gift
From the lord above
Who protects with love
To fix the wrong brain programming,

He makes my mind
Clear as day
My eyes to see life
With all its ways
And a heart that does pray,

An accident with a car
Now memories ajar
The bicycle to be knocked
To the ground
Yet still I am here
Remembering that sound
Like a musician
Playing the strings of a guitar
And I should've been a star
But I am in my own way
And every night
I look to the night sky and pray,

I am worthwhile
I make others smile
For I am
Special and important
I am treasured here
My life with very little fear,
For I am a survivor
I am a hero
My mind
Counting one to zero
And always the hero,

Like the programming
Of a computer
This brain is not lost
This brain as great as
Albert Einstein
Where equations
Are solved
And science understood.

Much to be read
Book after book
Knowledge the aim
For books are etched in my brain
No matter how the cover looks
For I am a person
Who has a deep heart
And a deep mind
And who always does good
When it comes to knowledge.