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| A scene from "The Miracle Worker" with Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft. |
better use than holding back the hair from
off her face, she speaks and no one understands
the words, hard as she tries to speak the
language. To connect, to know they get her
meaning, what an odd surprising gift that lies
beneath the tree she smells, unopened. Why
is she even there, some alien to help them focus
all their bitterness in one direction? Even more,
why is she? What purpose does her being
even serve, mistaken creature better off
not even drawing breath. The lessons she must
learn, of course; there's purpose in the flaws she
bears, the anguish and the tears she sheds, accused
severely, rarely understood. And the lessons they
must learn as well, the kindness they still lack,
the love they haven't learned, as yet, to show.
There's something about that depth of isolation.
just a feeling that I sometimes think I know.
(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014
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