Thursday, December 12, 2019

Deaf Poem for Upworthy

"Speak!"
Slap
Angry faces
Wordless voices

Kind fingers
soothe purple mounds
of tortured flesh

Where is the love at home?


New faces
Finger speaking
Crying joy, shame

I don't belong here
But I didn't belong there

There it was family love
But here it is true love
I can't accept


Official faces
open mouths
moving hands


Tender smile
patient

It's not your fault.


Come play a game.
It will be okay. 

Come home with me.