To a Mentally-Retarded Cousin at Christmas.

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ffpercent243
Junior Member

since 2003-05-04

Posts 37
United Kingdom

0 posted 2003-05-16 11:14 AM

Your 21st Christmas
Falls on you
Like a silent dream
That never awakens.

The dawn shivers
On a magic morning
You can't understand,
You, eternally six.

Pleased you can spell your name,
Sorry you wet the bed the night before;
Looking at toys at the age
Other girls are getting married.

You go running downstairs
With your new dolly
To switch on the fairy-lights
Although it is only 4 a.m.

The world awaits for you,
But you, (forever a child of Jesus)
Shall never find it.

If I am silent, it is because I am thinking, if I do not talk, please do not think I rude.

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2003-05-16 12:57 PM

Actually, she did find her world.
It's just different than yours, or mine.

Hello! Good to meet you!

Kamala
Member

since 2003-04-17

Posts 59
CA, USA

2 posted 2003-05-16 04:17 PM

ff%243:

i was a little wary to check this out from reading the title, but i'm really glad i did. what a great depiction. i think you capture really well what it's like for us 'normal' people to see 'retarded' people. and there's a poignancy and pathos to your images -- like the one of the girl running down the stairs to turn on the fairy lights at 4am.

good jaerb.

kamala

ffpercent243
Junior Member

since 2003-05-04

Posts 37
United Kingdom

3 posted 2003-05-16 07:42 PM

Like all my "personal" poems (eg "To Luke Robbins") this is truth.

Thank you for your comments.

SwEeTnSeXy18
Member

since 2000-09-18

Posts 247
nc

4 posted 2004-06-04 12:48 PM

ffpercent243: This made me cry. You dont think about things like this and how it is for diffrent people all the time. Great piece!! Take care

Lisa

~in order to gain, you have to lose~

Sweetest Sorrow X
Member

since 2004-01-19

Posts 146
From a cradle to a casket

5 posted 2004-07-04 04:56 PM

So Sad..So Beautiful...
<3
Persephone

You better count your lucky stars that everything I wish for..doesnt come true

Sweetest Sorrow X
Member

since 2004-01-19

Posts 146
From a cradle to a casket

6 posted 2004-07-04 05:18 PM

Sad
but Vivid

You better count your lucky stars that everything I wish for..doesnt come true

Kellie_Cantrell
Senior Member

since 2002-05-22

Posts 1667
New York

7 posted 2004-07-08 02:55 AM

I enjoyed this. Its a sad piece but it is so real. We see right through people and ignore them, its human nature. But to set that nature aside and see is so amazing.

Love,
xXx~*KELLIE*~xXx
Graduation : January 29th 2004

vampiana
Member

since 2004-09-08

Posts 296
Nothing and Nowhere

8 posted 2004-10-08 06:02 AM

wow..that was so sad and beautiful.

the lone light, in a world of darkness.

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