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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>From Out Of The Dark</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It all began when I entered this world, <br>I was born unable to see.<br>This meant nothing to a new born child<br>who accepted life so readily.<br>My crawling days first introduced to me <br>the knocks and bumps of reality</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Mum and dad were always around<br>to kiss me better when I fell.<br>They taught me how to walk the house<br>without giving injury to myself.<br>Upstairs and down I walked day or night, <br>just as though I had normal sight.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Throughout the early years of my life<br>I was educated by my mother, <br>but unexpectedly she became pregnant, <br>with Simon, my baby brother.<br>Simon’s arrival brought about a change of mind, <br>which saw me going to a school for the blind.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">This opened up an exciting new world; <br>there was so much more to know.<br>Would they be able to teach me to read, <br>and show me where my fingers go? <br>Touch, gave visualisations to objects and faces, <br>that gave me pictures to once blank spaces.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">By the age of ten I was developing other senses, <br>and was confident within my space.<br>After lunch one day, I was taken from my class, <br>a message had arrived in haste.<br>In the office, a policeman and my uncle were waiting<br>to break the news that was so devastating.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">A vehicle had crashed into my parent’s car, <br>which rolled into fast flowing river.<br>By the time they were recovered from the water<br>there were no signs of life whatever.<br>I was taken to the home of my uncle and aunty, <br>who promised to love and take good care of me.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">They worked for the diplomatic service<br>and were soon to be posted to India.<br>I didn’t know what was happening to me, <br>and I don’t think they knew either.<br>I was still in shock over my parents and brother, <br>and I didn’t really want to be with any other.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">One Sunday morning after the service at church<br>I was told to dismiss India from my mind. <br>I would be going to a special needs school, <br>for the partially sighted and blind.<br>It seemed their promise didn’t cover future years<br>regardless of my personal fears.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The first visit to my proposed new school<br>struck me with silence and despair.<br>A feeling of impending doom sickened me, <br>and I just didn’t want to be there.<br>The afternoon brought a shopping trip to town, <br>clothes and kit weighed me down.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The day came too soon for last goodbyes, <br>my guardians were off to Bombay.<br>They deposited me at the boarding school; <br>shook my hand and left without delay.<br>The Head Mistress firmly but gently held my hand, <br>she immediately seemed to understand.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I suppose all new children felt the same<br>when they were left to cope<br>with a daunting, intimidating situation, <br>and a feeling of very little hope. <br>With knocking knees and thumping heart<br>I faced an uphill battle from the start! </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">My early boarding days were far from easy, <br>worsened by the harassment of the blind.<br>Some of the partially sighted took advantage; <br>they were just born to be unkind.<br>But that changed with a new teacher’s arrival<br>who taught the ‘partials’ to be respectful.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=472906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">The discovery of inner peace in our mind and body, <br>and how to hear movement from sound.<br>How to separate the distractions that noise brings, <br>and how to remain focused and profound.<br>This knowledge has brought dignity and self belief <br>to a blind man who has now decided to teach.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=Orlando+Belo">Orlando Belo</a></strong></div>