For Willie------Downs and Out

For Willie ---Downs and Out

He has left the orphanage today.
I don’t expect we shall meet again.
He would spend incalculable hours
building objects with an old Lego
set in the orphanage.

Mostly cars sometimes spaceships
but never skyscrapers
they were too hard to do he said.
What was hard, he did not understand
unaccepting parents who could not
see the astounding beauty that his
scrambled chromosomes and
forever young soul possessed.

The children who stayed clear of him whilst
not understanding his gentleness,
his only blessing from the angels.

The system and foster homes came and went.
He had seen them all
at one time or the other.
Eleven but he felt as old as a senior citizen.
They took him to a home today
for the mentally challenged
I heard the nurse say to the social worker
he will be better off there
we can't handle them here when they
get to be older.

He smiled softly as he left
holding the social worker ladies hand.
Wishing only to be
reassured the new place
had a Lego set.

Authors Note

Blessings to all with Downs Syndrome

Jude