I never taught you the art of conflict I only recently learnt it myself How to stand your ground Be firm How to ask for what you want And receive it It shouldn’t be hard but we can make it How to sit with hard feelings Until you realise it doesn’t matter as long as […]
You tell me this You tell me that You tell me what we will eat What we will not That this will make us fat Unhealthy Gross You tell me that this is going out and I can’t do this But I can do that That this is how things will be in the new […]
Remaining silent Stoic What a challenge One I have been facing And largely failing Since birth Or rather since I learnt Response And words How to use them It was my Mother who preached Turn the other cheek She got it from that pacifist Jesus Later I would respect other leaders Like Gandhi Who sat […]
And the she wolf howls and howls and howls and the female the female feels it too under her skin through her bones the tremors begin A vibration that runs straight and true straight and true and through her bones that are howling this is so unfair! yet on the surface a smile breaks nicely […]
