Her Beautiful Smile

By mickleinapickle

Fri, 04 Feb 2022
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Abandoned by a mind-set

that demands healthy sons:

 

loneliness

beyond comprehension.

 

Profoundly disabled...

physically,

mentally,

deaf,

blind:

 

loneliness

beyond imagination.

 

She's in paradise now,

dancing in the sky...

 

laughing

... singing

listening

...seeing,

 

with a beautiful mind

that her beautiful smile

could only alude to.

 

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Submitted by mickleinapickle on

Hi Trevor. Yes, the poem's about 10 years old now. I keep twiddling and fiddling with my poems. Hopefully this one is settled now. She was a little girl I knew briefly many years ago. All she had was a beautiful smile. She affected me deeply. I still think about her often and the profound disabilities she had. Apparently, 1 child in every 6 has a disability to some extent or other. She was obviosly at the extreme end of it all. If you can survive birth, childhood and adulthood reasonably intact, you ain't half a lucky baskit. Thanks for the comment. Take care.

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Shakelton

 

This is very beautiful. I'n sure there is a story behind it.

Jean Day