Autism and the Arts: Poetry with Peter Street | movie | 2025 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Born in 1948, Peter Street struggled at school with epilepsy and illiteracy in Bolton and, later in life, as a slaughter | dG1fRnBDMGNnYWktWmM

Transcript

00:00I am yet what I am who cares or knows my friends forsake me like a memory lost I am the self

00:22consumer of my woes they rise and vanish an oblivious host shadows of life whose very soul

00:32is lost and yet I am I live though I am tossed into the nothingness of scorn and noise into the living

00:44sea of waking dream where there is neither sense of life nor joys but the huge shipwreck of my own

00:53esteem and all that's dear even those I love the best are strange nay they are stranger than the

01:03rest I long for scenes where man has never trod for scenes where woman never smiled or wept

01:12there to abide with my creator God and asleep as I in childhood sweetly slept full of high thoughts

01:23unborn so let me lie the grass below above the vaulted sky

01:42is

01:47thank you