Her Beautiful Smile
Abandoned
by a culture,
a tradition,
a religion,
a way-of-life
that demands
healthy sons:
loneliness
beyond
comprehension.
Profoundly disabled…
physically,
mentally,
deaf,
blind:
loneliness
beyond
imagination.
She’s in paradise now,
running like the wind:
laughing,
singing,
listening,
seeing,
with a beautiful mind
that her beautiful smile
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She Explained
She was distracted
and he ran on the pitch
in an instinctive,
uninhibited,
exhilarating chase
along the right wing.
He out-stripped
the startled player,
gave the ball
an almighty kick
and followed up
with a round of applause
as he watched it
cannon off the post
and career
into the stands.
She explained
that he always clapped
when he was proud
of something he'd achieved,
so they all laughed
and agreed
it was an excellent kick,
most of them applauded
and someone shouted,
“Well done, that man!”
He suffered
her gentle admonishment
when he returned
dutifully to her side
and the match
attained normality
as he retreated
back to his world,
with his secret smile
perceptibly wider.
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