The purpose of the poem I have written is to help others relate to how it feels to live with someone who is disabled and how it feels to be this person. I chose to focus on how it feels to be a person living with someone who has a disability because I believe a poem such as this could help others understand how this feels, and possibly even what these people are going through and how to treat them. Through an in depth look into the mind of someone who has gone through this life, I believe this poem is able show how a person's life and mental state are affected by living with someone who is disabled. Because it is from the perspective of a young child, it is able to be extremely relatable for kids and teens. Also I used the five stages of grief to relate this to events that happen in people’s  everyday lives such as breakups, and this works to connect to the reader’s own experiences. I also used the line “he was slowly tracking up a downward hill” to help visualize the slow descent disabled people may go through. This line was intended to be a hard hitting statement that would make people stop and really think about what this means. Using the five stages of grief, I am also able to go through the specific steps to acceptance in the author’s life, and how going through these steps has changed them. First denial in which the reader is young and unwanting to accept the reality of the situation, and next anger which helps to show the selfish aspect of this process and even why this anger has arrived. Thirdly bargaining, which shows the truth of a false sense of hope that with the bargaining to make the events better. Fourth comes depression, which is the raw emotion the reader can feel building up through the poem, and one of the most crushing emotions felt through this process. Acceptance, the final step, shows how the author has come to accept the reality of their situation. The steps explained here all help the reader to feel every single emotion someone goes through while living this harsh reality, and knowing what these steps are can also help the reader identify the steps in their own lives and in the lives of their loved ones, and this in turn helps the reader to help others and possibly even help themselves.