One day,
a whale
decided that
it wanted to learn Brail;
but, the whale
was in a bit of a bind,
as, not being blind,
it was difficult to find
a reason for doing so.
The whale talked to a friend,
who had been to school,
and asked, ‘Am I being a fool?
Wanting to learn Brail?’
The friend thought a bit,
about the learning of Brail,
and declared, ‘If you don’t try,
you are destined to fail’.
Which were wise words indeed.
‘But …’ was added at last,
‘I think that that you’ll find
you’ll need fingers to read
the language of the blind’,
and as the whale was deaf,
it signed the words
in BSL as well.
Graeme Sandford 