Antidote for a Deaf Man

I tumble into this world with deaf ears

Almost immediately the world searched and crafted an antidote

Bionic ears and speech lessons for years

Tongue suppress emotion

Pain radiates around the mouth

All in the name of progress,

So I can come about good as new

Singing as I join in the symphony

I remain a dis-harmonic key

As the Earth spun in motion

Beneath my feet

I caught fluttering wings out of the corner of my eyes

Limbs grew from my body and soared among the heavens

Painting visual symphonies after visual symphonies in the skies

Up there! In the wide open air!

See my thoughts as I feel the graceful flow of my hands

See my thoughts as I feel eyebrows shift and a smile take shape

See my thoughts as my body feels the open space for expression

Signs weaved the world

And spun it in motion

When I sing the antidote is not for me

The antidote is for others who can’t accept me

Their antidote molds me in their image

All the while my spirit is diminished

When my hands fly in the sky

Signing my soul in the stars

Twinkling and radiating across the night sky

I look down on signs weaving the world

And spinning it in motion