Sophia Liang
Medical Student, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine
If I could just listen to words
And verbs and phrases just like
Everyone else without outside help
Without having to process all the extra information
Sensations, ambiguity, body language
And know what the person is trying to say
Instead of bending my comprehension in machinations
Around unyielding impossibilities like
Assumption or implication or even someone else’s emotion
I don’t know how to impute naturally what you feel
I don’t know how to acquire what you mean
I can only see the world from myself
A single point of view stretching linearly into perspective
But others I think or I have heard
Exist and comprehend on a different spectrum
Where things just come naturally or are taught to them
From a young age, the ability to gauge
A room socially appropriately engagingly
While I stand off in the corner
Wondering what really is being said
Nostrum 