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Sometimes the world can seem like just a big hill.

No hope, no light

Like a big black hole

Scarce, and nothing in sight

The only clarity being in my soul,

Just blank

 

I’ve no communication skills

Lost, my hearing by more than three quarters

Sound, hanging on to a crisp of existence

All blurry, it seems everyone mutters

I speak the way I hear it, as quiet as the distance

I pass by not understanding,

I’m a faker,

Just nodding.

It’s lonely and dark here

But everywhere I go, it will always be silence

I can travel on and on for years

And everyone will still be but a distance

I’m trapped in a black box

As if there’s no way out

I see voices, everyone can talk,

With ease, except me, I pout

 

That is until,

A girl walks up, holding her hand in front

H-I-H-I she fingerspells

I feel my face warm up

She talked to me, and she didn’t have to yell!

Or scream or shout!

I have someone to talk to

I’m not left out

I see the light at the end of my never-ending cave, no more black, I’m no longer blue.

In disbelief,

I jump up with joy

No more grief

I see Life was meant to be enjoyed!

And spread the joy I will!



 By: Kyler Andrae E.

I will always remember the time when I was in 5th grade, when I felt alone in blank empty world, the exact moment when my classmate Brenda signed to me as we were leaving computer class. She opened my eyes, she was one of the kindest friends I've ever known. That was the time I first spoke sign language to someone else. It made me so happy I can't even explain. This is to all you hard-of-hearing, deaf, and signing artists out there!
© 2013 - 2024 KylerAndrae
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Maggishambe's avatar
:) I am very happy to know the people who took the time to learn sign language and teach it to me