Invisible

This is a poem I wrote about having a learning disability and how isolating it can feel.

How do you make someone see a truth
That's only visible to you?
They may not see it
But it doesn't mean it isn't true

To me it's an inescapable cage
One made from the fists of my own rage

Where I see a cage
They just see a box
That I can easily escape
Instead I just stand here
With my mouth agape

I go to cry but nothing comes out
Except for self recrimination
And some left over self doubt

My friends and family
Don't know this restriction
That lassos it's way up my heart
Rendering me incapable
Of a fresh new start

I wish they could see that barbed wire fence
Made up of a sadness so intense
It blocks my path from moving ahead
Filling my head with a darkened dread

I was born with a restriction
And it felt like a constriction
On the dreams I could achieve
Deep in my soul alone I grieve

Reviews

[Brittany Zedalis]

One of my longest, closest friends has a learning disability and it caused her so much trouble during middle school and onward because of hateful people who refused to try to understand. I think she would love and appreciate this poem. Very nicely done.

~Luna

[LeslieNoel]

If you feel your friend would find this poem comforting please feel free to share it with her!

[Carol Cashes]

My Goodness! You described how it would feel to have a learning disability to anyone who really wants to know.

Well done.

[LeslieNoel]

Thank you very much! I was hoping to have people experience what it's like having a learning disability through this poem. I guess I reached my goal!