Don't Marginalize the Deaf !!!

We cannot hear anything at all,
Because we are deaf.

Cannot hear voices,
We only see their mouths moving.

Cannot hear our own voices,
We only feel it in our throats.

Cannot hear laughter,
We only see it in their faces.

Cannot hear the sound of playing,
We only see other people play.

Cannot hear the screams,
We only see their mouths open
or the startled reactions of people around them.

Cannot hear weeping,
We only see their tearstained cheeks.

Cannot hear the scolding,
We only see it in their scowling faces
and fingers shaking up and down in our faces.

We will never hear even if hearing people
put their mouths to our ears and scream down into them.

But we can hear one golden sound very well - SILENCE.



All poems show some kind of emotion this one in particular is dealing with deaf people and how they are the same as everyone else. Deaf people just do or respond to certain things differently but it doesn't mean they should be put out of the society. Everyone is different if we were all the same life would be boring.





We are people too

We look like you

Don’t we?

We are people with feelings

Just like you

Aren’t we?

I can see

I can smell

I can touch

But I can’t hear

I can’t speak

But it doesn’t mean I'm not the same as you

I can show affection

Just like you

Don’t put me out,

I don’t want to be marginalized do you?

This is the poem that I signed in class, for my oral history project. There was trouble uploading the video for this one.



The two types of Sign Languages used is ASL and ESL the most commonly used. ASL stands for American Sign Language. ESL stands for Exact sign language.




Some useful website to learn how to sign the alphabet >>>http://asl.gs/