Frustrations mount, tensions
grow,
Hands reach out ever so slow,
Trying
hard for words to convey,
Tears come in
silent display.
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Eyes plead in desperation,
Screams instead of communication,
An
unbridged gap, a missing link,
Prevents a
child’s need to speak.
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Minds trying words to
form,
To this spectrum I was not
born,
What caused me to be this
way,
Suffering social and communication’s
delay?
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My heart loves, my hands
feel,
Yet my world doesn’t seem
real,
People just cannot understand,
Needs
and wants through voiceless command.
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I wish that I could say to
you,
"I’m hungry and I’m thirsty too,
Hold
me in your arms so tight,
Sometimes I’m
afraid in the night."
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"My tummy hurts or my head
aches,
I am sorry for making so many
mistakes,
I try to do what you ask of
me,
I just wish in my world you could
see."
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"All of these things I
can’t say,
Though I try and try every
day,
My world is sad and Oh so
lonely,
Pent up feelings grow ever more
strongly."
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Trapped in an Autistic
World,
Words spin, twist and
twirl,
Repetitive behavior, rigid
routine,
Consistency are all in the Autistic
Scene.
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Tip toe walking like a
dancing ballerina,
Flapping arms and
meltdowns fill the Autistic Arena,
Too much
energy, breaking and running,
Oblivious to
danger yet intelligence that is
stunning.
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Lonesome is the Autism
world yet many live here,
It use to be rare,
now it's one in one hundred fifty I fear,
Is
it genes, environmental or vaccinations?
What
is a common thread among all the
Nations?
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No matter the cause there
is no cure,
I’ll live in this world of that I
am sure,
Lonely and unable to talk to
you,
I’ll try to do the best I can
do.
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Just remember each time a
child misbehaves,
It might not be a parent’s
lack of skills engraved,
But a child Trapped
in an Autistic World,
Where words twist, spin
and twirl.
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Gayle Davis©
December 27,
2008
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