At a thousand yards
broken children
hear each others’ silence.
Without the superpower of normalcy
each knows they are a mutant,
wanna be X-Men.
Too young to understand
there is no such thing as normal,
they compare invisible scars.
The bewildering business of being
traffics in misunderstanding
and a roster of bullies.
On a future day, a teacher
will succeed in educating them
that they are fully human.
copyright © 2020 Kenneth P. Gurney
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