Autism

O, I love my dear boy
So dearly and so blindly
I will give him my blood
And life if God permits so

He's so weak and sick
So pallid and so tender
But I know he's an umbrella of snow
In the wide-brimmed form

A rhyme, a loft 
Almost in the spelling of my own world.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2012

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Smith Avatar
December 13, 2016 at 7:51 AM
I have a child with autism so I appreciate that you have written this lovely poem George
Gorelick Avatar
October 7, 2012 at 8:21 PM
Beautiful George..I can tell how much you love him. BG
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