daddy, I can’t
go back in there
you don’t have to go
i’m not
i’m not as strong
as the other girls
oh, my child,
there is a lot more to strength
than just muscle
what do you mean?
the strongest people i know
don’t have the biggest arms –
they keep going when things are hard,
they try,
even when trying seems silly,
and they have the strength it takes
to lift other people up
when they don’t want to try either —
you are strong,
my child,
very strong
i still can’t lift very heavy things
or carry heavy ones for long
well, remember,
wherever you go,
you are carrying my heart with you
i guess i’ll go back in there
you’ve got this
Perfect advice for lots of adults, as well as children!
Oh how perfect!
love you-Guess we’d all better lighten our hearts-or the child in us will have nowhere to go.
Holly
Think I’ll go back and reread “Be Free”
shoot! I can’t find it. My filing system is a mess (symptomatic of my life?) I can almost say it”Be free my friend, be free…” but would love to see it. How can one acccess your poems individually? Is there a search engine or index?
That would make WAY too much sense.
In the meantime, https://notalentforcertainty.com/2017/10/03/be-free/
Thank you! I’ve got it and am “posting” on my desk.
And, I agree; after all chaos is the mark of creativity.
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