Deaf? Not Her Feelings Poem by David N. Munene

She stood there and watched
Hoping her eyes heard
What she saw they saw
Only that they heard and she didn't know

They laughed so loudly
Of a situation so funny
She too laughed
Not because she knew what had been bluffed
Just that they too laughed

He asked to dance with her
On a dance floor in a par'y afar
She heard not, But took the hand
She's used to her interpreter's hand
That's why she kept stepping on him

They really interceded
On her behalf they pleaded
She didn't know when to Amen
They thought she was arrogant
She didn't close her eyes with the other men
Neither did she open them after Amen with the other women
Only she was naturally ignorant

Once in a congregation,
She turned around her shoulder
And found a finger dropping from her direction
She smiled back, embarrassed
Like a kid who in church just on herself pooped
As they all laughed at her

She is deaf; her ears are deaf
But her notion and conscience are enough
To hear the unspoken
She gets hurt too when downtrodden
Seemingly ignorant, less outspoken
She did not choose to not hear


She wishes she would hear
Just help her with her nature bear
Instead of purporting to jeer
Like lil' morons at her being
She's like you and I - a complete human being