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Invitation to My invisible world

A tribute to my autistic son Noah, in my son’s perspective

By Melissa IngoldsbyPublished 3 years ago 1 min read
Invitation to My invisible world
Photo by Elodie Oudot on Unsplash

sometimes I feel a part of the background

Like the way I line up so perfectly

Is this rare

How I feel?

How I can handle beats so perfectly in synch

In memory and rhythm?

There’s an invisible world I see

With patterns and balances that need to be aligned

Or broken or something that is good enough on its own,

Like me,

Here’s an invitation to this rare picture

Rare waves inside my mind,

As I love the same as you

With gusto and energy,

My patterns of perfect symmetry

Don’t always line up with everyone’s attitude of social norms

As I have it on a boat of idiosyncrasy’s

That is on a long, tangled sea, webbed and full of deep memory

Where I can remember details and facts going back to the beginning of the age of time, 10,000 BCE.

Is this feeling really so imperfect because I find imperfect rare and rare is beautiful

And beautiful is me.

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About the Creator

Melissa Ingoldsby

My work:

Patheos,

The Job, The Space Between Us, Green,

The Unlikely Bounty, Straight Love, The Heart Factory, The Half Paper Moon, I am Bexley and Atonement by JMS Books

Silent Bites by Eukalypto

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  • Canuck Scriber Lisa Lachapelle3 years ago

    This is beautiful

  • This is so beautiful and sweet

  • I am so sorry I missed this, and beautiful tribute sis. Also I had to drop in as my two pieces that mention autism have virtually no acknowledgement from the Vocal community despite one being my second most read story. Thank you Heather for alerting me to this.

  • Heather Hubler3 years ago

    What an amazingly honest and loving tribute. And that last line said it all :) I loved this!

  • Mariann Carroll3 years ago

    The the message in your poem. Very relatable 🥰

  • Heyyy, I'm Austisic too! And this resonated with me so much! This is a very beautiful tribute to Noah!

  • Cathy holmes3 years ago

    This is gorgeous. I see a top story coming. Well done.

  • Moe Radosevich3 years ago

    What an awesome tribute, indeed 😀

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