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By Wendy Lawson
Wendy Lawson's recognized poetry displays the numerous points of a existence lived with Asperger's Syndrome. during this illustrated number of poems and brief prose items, together with a few from her youth and teen years, Wendy engages along with her prior and current, writing frankly approximately formative years, self-discovery, maturity and friendship. Her poetry additionally conveys the day by day demanding situations awarded by means of divorce, bereavement, emigration, disclosing homosexuality and Asperger's Syndrome. either reflective and lifestyles declaring, those poems supply evocative glimpses of the Asperger event, and may enhance readers' realizing of autism spectrum issues.
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You are like shadows, empty shadows. What should I wear? Who am I today? Which one should I be? How to decide. Can’t decide. Chaos, confusion – too many choices! Feeling lost. Retreat, soft, gentle, warm. Every thing still. Green, fading into distant mist. Divided into hills, trees, nothing. Touching the blue-grey, sky. Unbroken; heat, muzzy, stormy. Breeze, soft, gentle, warm. Every thing still. All the people have gone. The decisions have left. DISCOVERING SELF Walking Walking, not talking, Along this sunlit path.
Aggression, hate, love, indifference. Which one and when? Is it now I’m supposed to respond, or was it yesterday? ’ What is ‘like’? How can I know? The moments of time aren’t on my side. So little time, and Decisions need to be made. All the silence tells me is ‘Nothing’. You follow me, seeking, always seeking. You are like shadows, empty shadows. What should I wear? Who am I today? Which one should I be? How to decide. Can’t decide. Chaos, confusion – too many choices! Feeling lost. Retreat, soft, gentle, warm.
Absences… Left or right Pain – Chaos, confusion – too many choices! Feeling lost. 63 64 ASPOETRY My Love It wasn’t always this way. The joy of knowing you And sharing in your life has taught me that I am Able to love and accept myself. In your presence I come to life in a way that I have never experienced before. This rag doll who is losing her stuffing becomes the musical clown, So full of colour and vitality. You set me free from the demands of self introspection and its ugly forest of gloom.