My On Going Disability
Things are very hard for me to see and hear, it’s very distracting
I never ever thought that I had such disability that causes problem
I find myself reading the words backwards and it’s more frequent
And I understand things incomplete, wrong, mixed in lost sequence
I guess is guessing my specialty, never really know till I was tested
Things in my mind get all mixed up I get so frustrated and quit
It takes me a while to read and analyze what I see
If the sentences get to long it becomes backwards
My understanding is always being tested and confused
Dyslexia is so unfair, but worse thing I am in despair
Why does my mind recall things backwards?
I don’t understand at all, simply because it takes twice as long
The thing is that is not all, I even hear things differently
That I know I recall, I had to take ten hours of testing
Reading, writing, and motor skills that I had
The testers notice I was so inconsistent and so bad
After repeating the sentence three or four times
I ended up finally getting it, I also would start understanding
After the tests they did sequences, which show the start and end
What happen was that I could not pretend
That the order of the things was mixed up in my head
I put one, as three and two as three, and three as one
I am confused because I did not read the small sentences
Under the pictures words was mixed, not mixed for normal people
But mixed for me, so I was completely caught off guard
The big pain was that it takes me three or four more hours
To complete a total paragraph of a book to read
And that frustrates me a lot, this feeling that is hard to control
Because I am such a mess, in the understanding of a sentence
It takes so much time for me to read and sometimes write
It makes me want to cry, but instead I basically quit which is wrong
My disability takes time, so time will tell how I will learn
Most of the time it is hands on, with a person, one on one
I do take med for such unfortunate physical curse
Just because I take med does not solve my problem or disability
It will help, but I have to trust my own mind and learn by honesty
So my disability is somehow connected to how my response
I have to be patient and try to agree, with people who don’t know me
This curse is sad, but a lot of people have such disability like mine
It takes many years to start getting things corrected with my disability
I don’t frown as much as I get older, I become smarter and wise
Through time, because that is what makes my disability go away
Copyright © Reynaldo Mast | Year Posted 2015
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