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Autism
April 1, 2014
Silence
It surrounds me
Someone talking in the other room
Someone is laughing
But the silence is around me
Crushing me.
I can’t breathe.
I wait a moment, I blink
She’s twelve
He’s seven
I remember the night in the hospital
My sister screaming in pain
Waiting to be born
I heard her cry
Her son had complications
The four words muttered softly
“Your son has autism”
Followed by
In the same blink in time
“I’m sorry”
© Kaelee L., Petersburg, MI
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Kestrel135 PLATINUM said...
on May. 21 2014 at 7:48 pm
Again, very meaningful and holding great emotions. The concept that saying "I'm sorry" is just out of habit and expectation was clear in the poem, and I found it a beautiful but wistful piece. The idea that those two simple words, "I'm sorry", would cover up the most shocking things - say, a baby born with autism - is proven wrong in this work, instead replaced by the truth that those words don't solve the problem. They might mask it, but they don't solve it. Very well written; keep writing!
