This poem is about my Aunt Virginia who suffered from untreated polio.

You beg of me

To peek at you

So I stare

And say I do

You beg of me

To speak to you

So my words

Began to spew.

 

Only through your disabilities

revealing purities

May I be allowed

to say that I am proud.

 

With your little

Clay doll face

I am lifted

With your grace

With your poor

Mental mind

I share my love

To your kind.

 

You were not

and never are alone

For my heart is with you

tied inside this stone.

 

 

( This poem is about my Aunt Virginia — suffering form

untreated polio which resulted in a mental handicap

as a child and throughout her adult life. She is now

deceased.)

 

 

 Copywrite © Tom Woodside

 

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  • Joie Schmidt on May 17, 2010

    Beautiful*

    Blessings.

    Sincerely,

    -Liane Schmidt.

  • Domenico Cigliano on May 18, 2010

    Personal and wonderful celebration of a woman’s life that obviously touched you powerfully in her frailty, thanks

  • mary on May 25, 2010

    such a great tribute

  • ShadowPsychos on Jun 17, 2010

    love what you did with this :)

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