I was an eight year old latch key kid.
Writing was my friend when I was home alone after school.
Homework, write,,and make dinner five days a week
No questions asked or the belt came out
Another time and place
No after school programs
No friends permitted over
Loners don't have friends anyway
My confidant listened and never judged me
Helped me standup and never let me fall
No matter the bully or challenge
By writing, I talked
It's not just the words and they matter
It's the magic that happens when it flows like wine
Sparkles like Champagne
An Ice Cream soda with
Whipped cream,multi-colored sprinkles and a thick straw
Writing poetry

Grateful there was a spoon at all
Don't expect much
I have learned to accept
There are worlds of difference between the two
If Nature and The Arts make you happy as they do me
Enjoy
Tune into it
Tune out the Rude and Uninformef
Look inside your heart
You will find your way
Enjoy your journeys more
Trust yourself
Do your homework
You will arrive

Kind
Caring
Considerate
Listen
Hug
Agree to disagree
Be the best
Live with positivity

Suggestion
Yes
Ideas
Yes
Backwards not forward
When did we allow this division?
Will we ever be the same?
Who is to blame?
The answets
Remain

You live in another time and place
Shamed the Kennedy Center for the
Performing Arts
So many talented people will never return or grace its stages again
President Kennedy and his brothers are not forgotten
The Kennedy you chose for your cabinet is disliked and not supported by his own family
People should live and love as they wish not by your rules
You chose dangerous and corrupt people like yourself
Your puppets
You shamed our country
How many lies did you tell last night?
We won't forget how many you will hurt..
You are woke!
Musk has no business here

Respect
Lifetime friendships torn to shreds
Making people's lives not only difficult but beyond comprehension
The day by day simple joys vanish
The meglomaniac doesn't know any better
We do
That is the difference
It is 2025 not 1940

I don't see what he sees in me
Beauty,charm,creativity,and his baby
Staying positive and caring in a world I know no longer recognize
With a mad man in the White House
His underlings are controlled by his every whim
Many not his own
All the love in the world surrounds us
No matter how caring and kind we are and may be
Through his beautiful blue eyes hoping the world will heal