POEMS FROM SPECIAL PLACES(AUTISM)

POEMS FROM SPECIAL PLACES
A Mother's Thoughts and Feelings

UNPEACEFUL SILENCE

Unpeaceful silence screams
When dawn awakens us from our dreams
Consciousness comes again to remind
That life is seldom as it seems

-Donna Ochs

MY SON

This son of mine
Such a beautiful boy
With blond hair shining
And bright blue eyes
Such physical perfection
I have seldom seen
But for all that beauty
He cannot speak
Cannot play
In a normal way
He spins and stims
He run, arms flapping
Toward the warm, shining sun
To a place I do not know
A place only he can go

-Donna Ochs

CODY

has gone away again
My calling cannot bring him back
For he listens not
He's in his private place
Where others cannot tread

His own reverie

There is a part of him you see
Not like the rest of us
His world is not the same
As that which we all know

But maybe it's not so bad

For where is the law written
That we must all be alike
God made him in this special way
For reasons only he can say

Who are we to question
Such awesome magnificence
For in all his glory
He knows things that we do not

Like the number of the stars
That shine from the heavens above
Or the countless grains of sand
That fill the great seashores

Philosophize we can
But ignorance remains
Some things we may never know
Perhaps it was meant to be so

-Donna Ochs

TO MY LITTLE SON
In your face I sometimes see
Shadowings of the man to be,
And eager, dream of what my son
Will be in twenty years and one.

But when you are to manhood grown,
And all your manhood ways are known,
Then shall I, wistful, try to trace
The child you once were on your face?

-Julia Johnson Davis

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