Words From The Other Land

Because I cannot speak

Some people call me weak

They paste on me a label

calling me disabled

But true strength is for

Much much more

Than decorating bones

Your strength is just on loan...

...Merely temporary

Mine's extraordinary.

The language that I hear

Speaks much deeper than my ear

You sing the songs of earth

Which have so little worth

I hear the songs of angels

Because to earth, I am a stranger

And though my tongue is weak,

I have words too deep to speak

I wish that you could understand

those words that do not come from man....

...but from the other land.

(Thoughts of my autistic son)