Compassion

It was a disgrace that a winner should be fired,
you would think that something must be decent once...

That C word happens every year
People get drunk on wine and beer
Eating plenty and stuffing...

I write this letter because I'm so proud of who we are,
We've lived through all our troubles...

Take a little time to realize what's in front and what we've left behind,
As our humanity can be...

A little girl casts a grin
to all that tell her she cant win.
Now looking to mother for...

everything is going to be alright just hold on tight
even when the shadows have gone away and there...

Innocence
I don’t know where to go next.
I won’t even try to just guess.
My soul has...

Unbeknownst to any
innocent onlooker, aye
underwent extreme internal
torture with...

Sentimental tears of happiness
Waterworks wept from woe
So many reasons for these Emotions...

Please don’t ask me to remember! Its confusing, but I’ll try.
To then realise that I can’t, Won’t...

Hot breath steaming
Trapped in the stalls
Narrow odds and handicapped
High fences and...

I'm unprepared so I stare froze,
Witnessing the footage of abuse in a care home,

They are...

When she said yes and would be there for me
Made me so happy as you are about to see
...

I'm not the girl you left behind.
I have new favorite songs,
New favorite colors,
New...

We ebb and we flow
like the tides on the shore,
We say goodbye
Then we come back for...

(this endeavor more self directed to progeny,
whose psyche wounded, strafed, and nicked.)

...