Can we trust?
Can we trust the space you offer?
Can we trust the words you utter?
Can we trust the time decided?
Can we trust the form provided?
Can we trust your singular view?
Can we trust the treatment we receive from you?
Can we trust the way you perceive?
Can we trust you to sit, listen and receive?
- Can we trust you not to leave another dent……in us….again?
Can we trust the system you’ve decided and provided
… will it actually be in our best interest…
… with our knowledge and guide?
Can we trust you to understand that sound is once, twice, three times as loud?
Can we trust you to understand that light, ‘that light’… there is burning, burning our eyes?
Can we trust you to provide the space to breathe?
Can we trust you to understand that our senses are more involved- BIGGER?
Can we trust you to let us move away from you… that you cause the trigger?
Can we trust you not to deplete our hard fought for energy and vigour?
Can we trust you to listen when we say we are tired…. and let us leave the room?
Can we trust you to give us time to form……form our own words…..it our way and not yours?
Can we trust you not to constantly correct when we misspell or stutter?
Can we trust you to say what you are going to do and not just assume?
Can we trust you to understand that your correction……. may only be correct for you?
Can we trust you to not magnify difference and constantly question our existence?
Can we trust you to leave us and let us decide?
Can we? Can we trust you? Can we decide?
By Pernille Fraser. Aug 2019
Artist Bio – Pernille (purr-nil-aa) Fraser . She/Her
Pernille lives in the south coast of England as near to the ever-changing sea as possible.
She is Neurodivergent. And now works from her home studio and online which enable her to have a more balanced environment for her sensory differences and her sanity.
Pernille worked in administration, fashion, applied arts, finance, before venturing back into education and then becoming a full-time artist. In recent years she has reached further into research in order to combined aspects with her arts practice feeling the need to gain further understanding in the vast leaps in the neurosciences, neurodivergency and dissatisfied with the lack of understanding in many aspects of society in terms of sensory experiences. She considers herself a life-long learner and continual observer of space and how it is experienced and occupied. If she could float everywhere, like a mist, she would.
License: All rights reserved. Used with permission.
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