Here's to the Children Who Don't Quite Fit



Here’s to the Children Who Don’t Quite Fit ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
August 24, 2021

Here’s to the children who don’t quite fit
Who run around aimlessly when all the others sit
Who look at the world through eyes unique
And into their souls you’d love to peek
To see just what magic makes them tick
When they look at a tree and call it a stick
Here’s to the teens who will not abide
By life’s set rules that they push aside
As they rock back and forth in their own special world While grown-ups grow frustrated with lips tightly curled Then bursts of brilliance they reveal as they race
While tears of love roll down a parent’s face Expectations often missed but still they yearn Wondering today what skills they will learn
We hope for the ones who don’t quite fit the mold
That the world will be kind as they grow old
We know that the bullies will play their cruel game Reality is, cruelty sometimes brings shame
But optimism lives in each heart and mind
Of parents and professionals who continue to be kind With a network of supporters shining bright as the sun The ones who don’t quite fit have already won
Nobody knows the future
So why pretend?
Let’s celebrate their victories!
May they never end!!!

About this poem

A celebration of children who don't quit fit the expected mold.

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Written on August 24, 2021

Submitted on August 24, 2021

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Scheme Axx Aabbccddxxeexxxxfxf
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,204
Words 223
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 19

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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