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They told me I wouldn't

They told me I couldn't

They said I'd never walk again

And I believed them at the time

But the torture an' pain

I endured because I was paralyzed

Was just too much

My parents are dead…damn drunk drivers

My uncle, cousins, an' brother are all I have left

I was only 8 years old

The kids I once played hockey with

Teased me an' me I couldn't play hockey

Because I was a girl

Now these same kids tease me

For not being able to walk

What could I have done-nothing at all

So what had I done to these kids

They teased an' hurt me

An' to this day I have the scars

The scars, they left imprinted on me

Never healed as they should have

I hated these monsters

These kids, my age, that hurt me so

I wanted them to die

But the life I wanted stopped me

I wanted to be out there

On that smooth, slick, glassy surface

Where you fly an' never stop

Unless you want to

However, I couldn't-as you see

An' so the scars continued to build

Until the pain and hurt

Of all the teasing

Became too much to bare

I pushed myself

Until I was bloody from falling again an' again

They told me I wouldn't

But I said "No!"

They stared in awe an' fright as I stood there

For the time, they feared me an' what I would, could do

However, that would pass when they became my friends

But I never forgave them for what they did

An' yet I do thank them for what they did

My dreams would come true

The day I stepped on that ice

An' so here I am now

Smiling the world away

As I run the distance

An' skate to the top with my team

They still knock me down

An' laugh at me

But it is I who is laughing

For I know that every time

I am knocked down

I will always get back up

An' you better believe it when I say

"Believe, Dream, an' Don't give up

Or else you'll get run over.

You CAN make the impossible possible."