Our Difference made us Delicate

For ADHD Awareness Month 2022

We do not always bloom. Our kind, like orchids, need the earth To hold us right:

Just enough water, Just enough light. For such a brief life, We spent so much of it wilting Or in unnatural hibernation, Waiting for a spring that does not always come.

We held up hopeful buds on babies’ necks And did not always bloom On the windowsills.

The gardener does not always come. We stretched toward the warm day Like a mother.

We cried to the light, crowning, Where have you been, all my long life?

We will stretch to our full heights, Showing our colours;

We’ll drink the day down like a draught. When we bloom, I know

The sun will watch us rise.

Suzanne Roys – Nursing Studies 1A