Poem for "A Very Special Walk" 2024, signature fundraising programme of Autism Resource Centre (Singapore)
Almost every year we have "A Very Special Walk Where we put on our socks Walk or run from from block to block No competition no need to watch the clock All just for a common cause In 2020 came the COVID-19 panademic Causing nationwide panic For some it was even traumatic With social distancing rules so rigid A fundraising event like this no longer could be so systematic But undeterred, we switched to virtual challenges no less authentic With everyone's creativity we became more dramatic Not more timid Everyone could participate in a virtual challenge, from running or swimming for the athletic To dancing for the kinaesthetic To sports for those with muscles kinetic To intellectual feats for those with skills like drawing, language or mathematics Each challenge was organic Completed with unique tactics Some even majestic COVID-19 crisis did not pull us apart, we became more synergic For donations we continued to solicit All in all, the re...