“WE WEEP WITH OUR EYES, THAT’S ALL WE CAN DO” WORDS FROM A NOVEL, BY STEPHEN KING, BUT AS I READ THEM, I WAS HIT WITH THE THOUGHT HE WAS RIGHT. YET SOMETIMES IT DOES NOT SEEM ENOUGH, AS MY HEART CRIES OUT AS WELL WHEN I LOOK UPON MY DAUGHTER, WHO AT AGE TEN, IS LOSING HER HEARING A LITTLE MORE EACH DAY. I SEE HER STRUGGLE TO KEEP UP WITH ALL THAT IS BEING SAID, AND I SEE HER FACE WHEN SHE CANNOT HEAR. IT IS THEN I WEEP WITH MY HEART, TEARS OF SADNESS AND TEARS OF PRIDE. I AM SADDENED THAT SHE CANNOT HEAR, BUT I AM SO PROUD OF HER VALIENT STRUGGLE, HER DETERMINATION TO OVERCOME WHAT FATE HAS PUT IN FRONT OF HER. WHEN SHE THINKS SHE IS ALONE, I ALSO SEE HER TEARS FOR WHAT SHE HAS LOST, YET SHE CONTINUES ON AS IF NOTHING IS HAPPENING TO HER AT ALL. THAT IS STRENGTH, THAT IS COURAGE, IT IS THE REASON FOR MY TEARS. I CANNOT GIVE HER BACK WHAT SHE HAS LOST SO I WEEP WITH MY EYES AS IT IS ALL I CAN DO. BY ODIS E. SHULTZ FOR MY DAUGHTER ELISABETH JULY 1999
Reason for writing:
Last year, my daughter underwent surgery to correct a hearing loss. The surgery failed, resulting in total loss of hearing in her right ear. Since that time, she has also started losing the hearing in her left ear. She is my inpiration for this poem, as she has never given up. She is a fighter.
Birth sign: Cancer
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