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     A young author publishes her poem!

Kari Larson, now a 25 year old woman with Down Syndrome, is a published author.  She has published her poetry in The Family Digest magazine.  The poem is reprinted here with the author's permission.

Wounded

I am the wall that's broken in half.
Down I came like thunder bolts in the sky
with tears in my eyes, Iike rain from the clouds
that go down to the ground,
where flowers surround me.
There I stand in the dark.

There is God beside me.  When things go wrong,
how wonderful it is, Somebody special in life comes to me, I talk to in my sleep.
Love is great no matter what I do.

When darkness falls down on me and here I am alone once more, then I see the larks in the sky that came down to me. 
I feed them bread crumbs and they like me because of God.  He brings them to me. 
I am here for the skylrks to see. 
Here I am on the street, wounded like a doe.

And God's hands come upon me and heal the wound of my suffering.  I am struggling to survive.  In the wind, I used to hear the flowers talk to me, like voices of the angels.

The people are my friends. 
They have pity on me. 
They took me in, into the room. 
There was blue sky.

I see the angels from God standing around me.  Their love for me brought me back home where I belong. 
And here I am once more,
Happy as I can be that the sun has
shone upon me like glory.