Ballad of a Paralysed Citizen

I'm paralyzed and things could

Change for you as well

You're not so bad off now

You can move anything you need

I'm not this way because of an

Emergency I caused

At seventeen a guard

Perched above the chlorine floor

When I saw a hand raise up

From just beneath the air

A frantic move for help

I made an instant judgment call

To dive, I arced my feet to dive

I broke the elemental line to save a child

Dive into the shallow floor

The bottom scraped my palms

And compressed my spine

Now I'm paralyzed

While they just hope to make amends

The family and the kid

Who faked the drowning incident

I've felt the hand of God

And that's the last thing that I felt

They'd all blew up my back

I've lost the faith I thought I had

To dive, I arced my feet to dive

I broke the elemental line to save a child

Dive into the shallow floor

The bottom scraped my palms

And compressed my spine