Autism
A mystifying creature,
Eyes,
Brown like no word can describe,
Pools of emptiness,
amid hedges of lashes.

The portals to the soul,
Shrouded by a fog so thick,
no one can reach inside.

What is he like?
I cannot say.
Different from all the rest?
To me he is Andrew.
A child, a soul
A smile that melts our
hearts away.

Little hands grab
at bits of reality,
dragging them back to his
world.
The eyes,
questioning something he
cannot ask.
He looks at you
or so you think.
But you are not sure.

He lives alone
In a shadowy place where
Cats have bommyknockers.
In a place we cannot visit.

He has gone away
again.
But not for long.
I can see it in his eyes.
He will be back again.
To visit.


Claire Coyne, gr. 9


Photo by Elizabeth Bailey, gr.9

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