Somewhere

By Luke Gilmore

Design by Molly McGarvey

Founders’ note: Not everyone is born with the ability to use their voice. Not everyone can easily communicate their thoughts, feelings, hopes and dreams. On this page, we’re give nonspeaking people in our community the opportunity to be heard. The authors are students at Mouth to Hand Learning Center in Mount Kisco. You can read about Mouth to Hand in the article “Force of Nature” on our website or in the September/October 2023 issue.

I always believed in the impossible.

I had faith in my inability.

I was going absolutely

Nowhere

In a world that closed my doors.

I’d hear them slam shut in my heart

And read the sign “closed forever”

Train has left the station for you

Forever.

But a whistle blows down the line

And a train finally pulls in

The doors open

I step on board.

The train leaves the station

With me riding into a sunset of possibilities

And I laugh because I am going somewhere

At last

somewhere

This article was published in the September/October 2025 edition of Connect to Northern Westchester.