If I Am At All
…obtaining nirvana is like locating silence
Jack Kerouac
There have been times
of questioning
the state of my being.
The impropriety
of my individuation
in the hearing society –
conform or else?
Should I be different
or beg to differ
would I not
be a part
of this whole?
Am I
by nature
so different
by the silence
it mutters?
Is deafness
like death
so remote
yet so imminent?
Wordgathering (2009)
By Curt Robbins