#Autistic teen chronicles his journey through poetry and photography
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By Mikey Allcock
My journey is through my years in my mind. It is my poem. I have put photographs with it so others can make a dream.
FORT
I saw dark tunnels
It was an adventure I opened the door
to an empty room I climbed the stairs
I found darkness
I opened the door
to an empty room.
Windows for stories
spooky spaces
old telephones
creeping wet places.
Holes to stand in
scary,exciting I open the door
to an empty room.
I read the signs
stiff jacket hanging
feel the ghost crying
in the empty room. Big heavy doors
where the light is shining
and inside the door my empty room.
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Born in Cambridge UK in 1998, Mikey Allcock is autistic, a pianist and an artist. Inspired by his enthusiasm for architecture and towers, Mikey began to paint buildings in 2014. Always free-spirited and unassuming, Mikey enjoys playing Beethoven on his piano and hopes one day to have his own art studio. He created this poem Fort for his Art and Design Diploma as part of ‘journey’ assignment. The photographs he either took himself or directed his sister to take. Mikey participated in The Art of Autism Autism Unveiled Project in 2015.
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