If you knew - a poem

Saw this on the autism speaks facebook links today and thought it was beautifully written:


This poem is by Lisa Madren, whose son has autism.

You do not know my child

But if you did, you’d regret the time spent that you did not know him

He is different

But that does not mean he is not a wonder to behold

Sometimes beauty lies behind what is considered “normal”

Sometimes the beauty of a special soul lies within an enigma

A pearl that lies imprisoned in a tough clam’s shell

A treasure that you must work hard to get at

To pry open

To find the jewel underneath

And once you saw that pearl, you would want to admire it

You would want to possess it

You would want to display it proudly

And you would wonder why you had not seen it underneath its shell before

And you might stop to observe the other previously unnoticed gems in the sea

You might discover that not all the coral must be red

Or all the fish must be golden

Or that all the seaweed must be green

To have value

To deserve friendship

To be capable of love

If you knew my child your vision would widen to see all the colors and possibilities

That lie within all of God’s creatures

If you knew my child

If you really knew my child.

Re: If you knew - a poem

Love it.

Re: If you knew - a poem

This was beautiful!

Re: If you knew - a poem

Beautiful!