POEM IN COMMEMORATION OF WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY) UNIQUELY ME
Have you once met me in the street and fidgeted in discomfort?
Have our eyes met and you averted your glance?
Have you avoided contact
But still found that yours is a memory haunted by my sweet innocence?
Yes… Maybe you have
Have our shoulders brushed
But your eyes remained downcast?
Have I been a secret, kept in the shadows
Hidden
that you are ashamed to expose
Lest you clashed with harmless critique?
Yes… Maybe I have
Have you heard the song on the radio- my favorite song?
Have you seen the hurt in my eyes?
Have you sensed what I wanted to say- what was wrong?
Have you heard my silent cries?
Yes… Maybe you have
Do I look slightly different?
Do my tasks take a different route?
Yes… you do notice
But it’s not the extra chromosome which sparks the malice
Or the medical term down syndrome which is of extreme importance
Maybe what confuses and agitates
Is not the observable difference
But the knowledge that we all are one… we all are humans
But I still am who I am Uniquely me…
BY TANYARADZWA VANADIS17 MASAIRE
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