Brave

The lion and the butterfly written and narrated by poetess author Nardine Sanderson 2023©️

I want to go home but don't want to,
The guy next to me has my back,
The trenches smell...

I’m part of the pretending
Pretending I’m ok when in reality I’m drowning in a sea of thought some...

In this life you must think twice, or don't and you will end up paying a price.
In this life not...

sitting in the exact same chair
yours truly sat three hundred
and sixty five days ago....

Time and again
jovial imp does succeed
at collecting aggregate of infinite moments
...

I lost my spirit
I just wasn’t in it
Thought a lot
A lot of hate and such
Hate...

Українці ніколи не схилять голови,
Для тих, хто прагне подолати.
Вони ніколи не дадуть землі...

02/12/2021
An overwhelming thank you

I was just having a night cap,
My sweet Chemo,...

The smell of burning flesh
The blood when its fresh
The nicotine hitting my lungs
A...

She stands tall amongst it all,
Taller than the eldest tree.
The tree that bared all of the...

My Samurai warrior is framed in the doorway,
his attitude says: we will do it your way, not my way...

at Henry Kline Boyer Elementary School
As a Halloween costume,
one year during early grade...

The tears he cried are soon washed away
Out of his bed now to face another day
Brave face...

There’s only so much I can stand
There’s only so much I can stand before a negative pattern makes...

His people are his vision, family his life, his women his passion
Like the sky of clear blue aqua...