'She was mentally disabled, ' they said, <br />And they said ‘but she was sweet.’ <br />And if heaven passed a million souls <br />It would still wrap slippers around her feet. <br />For her heart was vast and wholly unkempt <br />By a certain part of the brain, <br />That tells us to love so aimlessly <br />Is embarrassing, even insane. <br />So she put more love in her thirty six years <br />Than most in eighty years are able; <br />Yet most won’t give a passing thought <br />To how Sarah Murphy was labeled… <br />For though it’s true she was, <br />When compared to us all <br />Wasn’t she less disabled?<br /><br />Matt Johnston<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/sarah-murphy/
