AnElephantCant forget his childhood
When he travels to so many schools
It is never easy to be
Big and grey – you see
To be different is to break the first rule
The Ligo Haibun Challenge is a weekly event hosted by sweet Nightlake and the bold Pirate.
Visit them for all the guidelines and background.
This week we can choose as our topic one of two words
Fascination
or
Torture
AnElephant writes of torture.
Knots and Crosses
Torture
The two women sit with twin babies.
Mummy holds one, her sister the other.
All four have identical light blue eyes.
It is an enchanting picture.
Daddy arrives with two more children, a blue-eyed boy and an older, brown-eyed girl.
The boy immediately involves himself with his mother and the baby, and is welcomed with smiles and kisses.
The girl sits beside her aunt, attempting to be part of things, but is excluded from the general joy.
Daddy films the happiness, but carefully ignores the misery.
a young soul is tortured
for a heinous crime
being different
I was always the other cousin, poor and fat. A powerful and moving haibun, Sir.
AnElephant’s sympathy.
Thank you for your time and compassion.
Very powerful.
Dubitatif, cherie?
That was beautifully heartbreaking 🙂
Thank you, Helen, and sadly it is all too true.
Wonderful photo~
I look in the face of human^^
Thank you, and welcome to AnElephant’s home.
He hopes you return many times.
Thank you nice comment& my friend anelephant.
And – all along I thought you were pink.
You captured the torture of being different well. Someone is always different.
And – people can be so hurtful to those that are different out of pure ignorance.
Kind and true words, dear RoSy, thank you.
Oh my goodness – I am that brown-eyed girl, absolutely. Always the different one, the one on the outside, the observer. Perhaps that’s why I can write now? Out of the lion, came forth sweetness….
Lovely and moving, with more than a tinge of sadness. Well done, Mr Elephant (who definitely can!).
Your words are more than kind, my lady.
Often people are unaware of this problem, but particularly those who travelled as children know it only too well.
Thank you.
The different people are always given the ‘treatment’..realistic..well done:)
Sadly true, dear lady, to be different is a major problem for a child, and some adults too.
I was the different child with my dad’s side of the family and different with my moms. 🙂 Happens when you are mixed between two different worlds but I kinda like it.
I see AnElephant in the picture 🙂
And he sees you!