The Way It Is
"Waaahh!!!" A baby is born at the Northside hospital. It stops
crying.
All you hear is the sound of the doctors whispering. The doctors explain to
the baby's parents
That there baby is blind and deaf and will love a long hard life but the
parents accept there
Child.
At the age of 2 little babies John was walking but he still did not
understand
That he cannot see where he is going and he will cry himself to sleep. He
dreams all
The sweet dreams even though he does not dream the way we can because of
his disabilities.
None of this stops little John and he anagoges the years.
Years pass and now baby John is 6 and he is at a deaf and blind
school and is
Crying every second he does not feel some one right there waiting
For him incase he falls or gets scared. He is getting frustrated that he
cannot hear or see but
His parents and teachers are in this with him together. The support of his
family will
Get him through life.
More years pass as John turns 10 and he is learning to feel his way
through life.
He gets scared when he does not feel something. He trembles as he walks
down his stairs.
He is scared in his bed lying there with nothing to protect him.
At 15 John has learned all touches and tastes. He is walking and
trying to
Live a normal life. But now John is 19 and he loses touch, feel, noise,
smell, and anything
That involves living. He stops breathing. His parents cry and take him to
the hospital.
He lays in the cold damp hospital as the doctors tell his parents there is
no
Hope left. John is dead. John's parents hug each other and say a prayer for
little baby
John.
