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By maipenrai
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11 April 2008 |
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I met an Angel today
on the 256,
a silent little Angel
with an Angels smile,
she could not speak
nor could she hear,
this silent little Angel
only smiled. |
Written by mia_ms_kim (1017 comments posted) 11th April 2008 | I read this like a beautiful riddle. I wonder if 256 is a bus number or something, and there you saw perhaps a little child? Perhaps a little deaf-mute girl with with big pure eyes and a wide innocent smile, unaware and untouched by the pollution and noise of the world... and of her own plight? Anyway, that's the image this poem conjured up for me. It was strangely moving.
Mia  | Hi Mia
Written by maipenrai (783 comments posted) 11th April 2008 | You got this one hundred percent spot on, the 256 is a bus service, the little girl was with her mum, talking to her mum I found out that she could neither speak nor hear but like all children of her age she was looking around taking everything in, When I offered her a sweet she gave me such a beautiful smile I was nearly in tears, so much for the macho ex soldier and aid worker  ,
the way I look at it is that if you are not touched by an innocent beautiful smile of a young child then you must have real problems in your life.
Bernie | Bernie, that's very touching...
Written by mia_ms_kim (1017 comments posted) 11th April 2008 | I am even more touched by the fact that you were so deeply moved by the little child - especially coming from the background of ex-soldier. You must have seen quite a few horrendous things. I heard that the people who can relate to children well are healthy on the inside. Now that I have a little boy and often around little children, I think it's so true. (I'm not talking about being a mother here.) There is something so cleansing, freeing about being around children,, being their height and talking at their level, that makes one whole. I found this piece even more so because it conjured up for me the picture of innocent "disabled" child. Maybe those children help me be more fully human... Ahhh... Let me stop writing another essay...
Mia  | Hi Mia
Written by maipenrai (783 comments posted) 12th April 2008 | Thank you very much for your comments.
Bernie |
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