“Louis Braille”
Who’s that?
Who’s he?
He’s the guy that let me see.
Louis Braille’s his name
He gave me another chance at life
This awesome guy invented a system for us to see
I can now use it as my key
To enter society.
He helped me cross the bridge between the sighted people and me.
We all know he worked hard for this to work,
Not only staying up at night for two years straight
To finish his system,
But he was only 15 years old when he did it.
With that amount of devotion,
Louis Braille is like an Einstein with science
Or like Rosa Park with her fight for rights.
Deep down,
They all have something in common -
They didn't stop until they got what they were fighting for.
Louis Braille went against every single problem that existed when creating his system,
But he persevered
Hoping it would help lives and at the end,
That's what happened
Sometimes people think it was all because of an accident,
A little kid playing with an awl would not only change his life
But millions of others, too.
While hard to believe
And shocking to some,
Louis was blind while creating his method.
It gave him the passion to finish
The job that he started
Helping not only himself
But others as well.
“Braille” is more than just a simple alphabet,
It’s more than what you think.
It has music and math,
rhythm and rhyme,
just for the blind.
The sad part of all of this is
That he sadly passed away before seeing this.
When he died, it wasn't a big thing,
He never got to see his success, but it sure did change more than 10 million lives.
Louis also had the great idea of not making this any language so that later,
it could lend a hand to anyone that was blind
or wanted to use this significant system.
His creativity was amazing,
An ocean full of ideas.
It's outstanding how this big idea came to form -
from a little method that no one thought was a big matter -
A military form of communication in the dark -
To the greatest masterpiece for blind people
With the biggest vocabulary in the alphabet that anyone has ever seen.
“The biggest and greatest thing that ever happened to me”
A lot of blind people think.