Not Being Me - by Peter Street

- For everyone  with dyscalculia and Dyspraxia

Childhood nights were dreams
of being a sheep
then up and outside of a morning,
a quick check to see
if by any chance in the night
there had been a change
of being just like all my friends
and not the odd one out
like afternoon dance lessons
spent hidden
in the toilet
out the way because
I couldn’t dance the sheep steps
that’s why I dreamed
of being a sheep
so I could be like everyone else