Special Needs
How do you love a person that can never love you back
How do you pour out all your life to love someone who lacks
The knowledge or ability to love you in return
To share in their humanity the things you'd have them learn
How do you show you care for them when nothing that you say
Apparently makes sense to them to move in any way
The depths of their emotions to respond in kind to you
To show appreciation for the loving things you do
You might say that's so foolish there are none who cannot feel
The love another gives them that is true and pure and real
But if you're not a parent of a child with special needs
Who suffers with severity the fruit of evil's seeds
Then you cannot imagine how impossible it feels
At times to keep on going when those challenges are real
Nor can you comprehend the depth of emptiness in heart
When all your dedication keeps your life from having part
With others who are living free from burdens that you feel
Those burdens oft oppressive with the loneliness that's real
That comes with every morning as you wake to face the day
And only ever leaves you when in sleep you pass away
Into the land of slumber where you find a brief reprieve
Where sometimes you find comfort that you're longing to receive
That comfort with assurance that someday in life you'll find
Another who can listen without judging in their mind
Who truly just like Jesus sees the burden that you bear
And reaches out in sympathy to show you that they care
Not just observing from a point or distance that's not real
But living what their saying to assure you that they feel
Your burden by assisting you to let you slip away
To spend a little special time where those who hear you say
You love them can respond in kind to say they love you too
So simple and yet so profound as they respond to you
So friend if in your reading you know one who lives this way
Ask God to help you help them to experience today
The joy that they've been missing that will bring more joy to you
As God will bless the blessers for the selfless things they do
James 1:23-27
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