By Laurel LaChance

Don't belittle my dreams
Because you never reached yours.
Don't tell me I can't do it
Because you never could.
Don't treat me like the person you were
Because I am me
And you are you.
Don't doubt me
Because I will reach my dreams
And do all the things you never did.

Not much innocence
Left in American life

Appeals to foreign fears
And prejudices of whites

But I saw that dear deer
By the Celtic Cross last night

Like Gordie LaChance once did
Stand By Me through the strife

Carl Reiner became an atheist
Because of the Holocaust
And truly I understand
No possible way to comprehend
What happened in that land

His son made wonderful movies
The Princess Bride and Stand By Me

As you wish and Gordie LaChance
Who the quiet deer did see

And I watch: gratefully.