For the Deaf Child, a poem/song
This is a poem/song I created in honor of today and tomorrow’s events in Virginia-
Please read the poem/song metaphorically . . .
I will do the ASL (with captions and maybe voice) version when the protest in Virginia is over. Please feel free to sign this marching song in ASL or/and English/Voice, whatever pleases you. DO it with loving kindness.
Share! Empower! with Love!
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For the Deaf Child
A poem in honor of AVT-BS, DBC, dDeaf AND hearing people there . . .
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(drumming begins)
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Soldier On, March On, Forge On
For our dDeaf children, the Deaf Child
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Soldier on, thy Deaf comrades
With thy Deaf Conscience purest
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March on, onto the green hills in Virginia
to the Volt’s Summer Conference
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Forge on, to fight only an arm
of the Giant Octopus Volt
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Soldier On, March On, Forge On
For our dDeaf children, the Deaf Child
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Soldier on, to awake the slumbering Giant
of the General Public about Castle Volt
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March on, sign “loudly” and articulate well
Using interpreters and codas, our natural allies
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Forge On, with hearing and deaf parents
Who believe in the Deaf Child, first
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Soldier On, March On, Forge On
For our deaf children, the Deaf Child
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Solider on, today’s battle won or lost? no matter
We have just begun a War against Octopus Volt
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March on, to Volta Bureau in Georgetown
Another arm, recruiting soldiers from nearby
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Forge On, against National Geographic Magazine
Another arm, refusing to do an article on the Deaf.
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Soldier On, March On, Forge On
With loving kindness for our Deaf Child
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Soldier On, with loving kindness
To make them realize Language comes first
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March On, to many more Battle sites
with the people of Volt to wake them up
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Forge on, show them the Book
Of our history and irrevocable bilingualism
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Soldier On, March on, Forge On
With loving kindness for our Deaf Child
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Soldier on, but don’t destroy the Volt soldiers
Love them as one of our sacred comrades
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March on, toward Castle Volt
But don’t burn the castle down, cherish it
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Forge on, make them our expert in teaching speech
Not on how to raise our Deaf Child holistically
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Soldier on, March On, Forge On
For our dDeaf children, the Deaf Child
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Soldier on, make them JOIN US in the War
To liberate the minds and souls our deaf children
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March on, for our dDeaf children of the Now
and the Deaf Child of the Future
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Forge on, for our dDeaf children
And for the Deaf Child within us . . .
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Soldier On, March on, and Forge on!
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Solider On!
March On!
Forge On!
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(drumming ceases)
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Amen