Kids Like These

ילדים כאלה - Kids Like These

 By Chaya Tavin

(ילדים כאלה = "Yeladim Ka'eleh" = in Hebrew, meaning "Kids like these")

ילדים "כאלה"

Whose eyes do slant a bit

ילדים "כאלה"

Whose tongues just don’t quite fit

ילדים "כאלה"

Who learn things somewhat slow

"כאלה" ילדים

I’ll tell you what “they” know

“They” know who really loves them

Whose smile is sincere

“They” know who needs an extra smile

Who’s about to shed a tear

“They” know that people stare sometimes

Don’t see beyond the שוני"”

“They” know that there are many who just think of them as “פלוני”

“They” know that many love them

And help along the way

To help them learn to crawl and walk

And run and speak and play

ילדים כאלה""

There’s one more thing to know

There is a unique person

Behind that label “slow”

Please don’t tell me, kind sir

That “Down syndrome’s like this”

Or tell me Miss Experienced

The milestones he will miss

Please don’t call him אלה""

He has a name, my son

He is his own dear person

Not a “them;” but one

My son is a creation

A uniquely crafted being

Sent by the Master Craftsman

To help improve our seeing

His personality’s all his own

His strengths and weaknesses, too

Please see the good unique to him

He’ll do the same for you