Looking in Autistic Eyes
written on Jun 27 2004
Into brown eyes I stare
wanting to search your soul
knowing that you're in there
but I can't quite grab hold
I want to know where you are
to see the things you see
then as I think I've lost you
on your face, a smile gleams
And there in your eyes
comes recognition and love
as I hold back my tears
and into my arms you come
Its like you know what I feel
and desperately want me to see
all the things there is inside you
that you can't express to me
It's a battle we wage each day
of an illness I've yet to understand
but I'll keep fighting forever
for you, my special little man
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Comments
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This poem, it seems to me, grasps and explores the difficult relationship in the autistic situation and does it in such a delicate way that those of us who know nothing of it can become part of it.
Couple of points of English -- penultimate stanza its should take an apostrophe and "all the things there is inside you" is ungrammatical. A beautiful poem.
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a good poem, delving into the mind to reach and caress with a smile.
there is a contest for autism poems recently opened which allows prewrites.
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