I Wonder, by Haley Biane

Not only is Haley Biane a young scientist, but she is also now a CCA volunteer and a writer. She shared this poem she wrote with CCA and we knew it belonged on our blog. Enjoy this stirring poem, and you can still help Haley with her research by taking this survey if you are a student. 

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I Wonder

By Haley Biane

Do you ever wonder what it’s like to walk in someone else’s shoes?

Live their day minute by minute and do everything they do?

I wonder.

I wonder what it’s like to be wealthy or to be poor,

To be just born or knocking at deaths door.

I wonder what it’s like to be a girl or a boy,

To have a facial abnormality and be ripped from your joy -

When you go to school or wherever you go

Please stop staring, and just say hello.

I wonder what it’s like to be laughed at and pointed to

To be made fun of and ridiculed for something you didn’t do.

We don’t have a choice of how we will look when we’re born

Whether we’ll have brown hair, blonde hair, or green eyes on our first morn.

You can’t help it if you’re born with

Treachers Collins

Hemangiomas

Or Cleft Lip

Just like you can’t help it if you have

Freckles

Lots of hair

Or are light skinned

or dark.

That’s how we are meant to be, it's how we are made,

We should all walk in the sunshine and not stand in the shade.

We need to open our eyes and see we are all the same

We all need love in our hearts, we are all playing the same game!

We all have feelings, we all hurt, and we all bleed

We need to hold each others' hands and help those who are in need.

Let’s not Judge

Let’s not hate

Let’s come together

And appreciate

Who we are, made with love

From God up above.

We must judge less

And choose to LOVE.