Ode to the Mushroom Joystick
I have known you for the past ten years when I was nine years old i had this blue wheelchair it came with a mushroom handle on my joystick I don’t know if there's a name for it but it always reminded me of a mushroom small, round and looks like a tree I loved it so much. My hand fit its shape like a glove I didn’t want to let go it was so perfect so elegant it felt like coming home to a loved one every time I held you my grip had to be firmer and tighter to protect me and you Your texture is rough but when I touch you it feels soft like my favourite blue blanket You followed me along to see all of my big moments; when I left elementary school when I began high school You were there to hold all the hair ties I lost but found you were there when my best friend gave me a bracelet for the first time, I put it on you I can never drive and wear bracelets It is why I never wear jewelry you were there on my first day of college proving that if m...