Life can be challenging, and, perhaps, these poems can bring a smile or give comfort. Nobody walks through life alone.
Something’s wrong.
Happening everywhere.
People not acting right.
Nothing to depend on.
Fear taking more bites –
Leaving marks on tattered souls.
Things are so expensive –
When they can be bought.
Businesses feeling the pinch;
Shutting their doors when too much.
Leaving empty storefronts staring
Like people grieving shattered dreams.
Governments faltering.
Trying to keep everyone afloat.
Paying people who can’t or won’t work.
Paying people too much for those who do.
Finally, helping people, elderly and sick, who
Desperately need their unquestioning support.
Frustration leading citizens to anger.
Questioning why this is happening?
Who’s to blame?
Can’t be me! Must be you!
Denial sets in.
Protests and riots strike out.
Anger runs its course, in time.
People start taking stock of their lives.
Remembering what is important.
Reaching out to those in need.
Rebuilding from the ashes of their former lives
Like the hatching newborn Phoenix of myth.
-Dawn
Poem appears in Maria Kontaxis & Dawn Huffaker's collaborative
project I Will Fly.
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THE SUNSETS.
We hit the shadows of the night.
The blessings of the mornings.
A thousand shadows in our steps.
Wonders in our dawning’s.
This book here that you behold.
Was written in the sunlight.
For your heart to uphold.
Like the Phoenix riseth.
The storyteller’s mountains mould.
Just like the sea of music.
Freedoms of choice.
Dancers are told.
Can you feel the music?
The moon rises.
The sun descends.
You always become stronger.
It’s in the matter of the sense.
The world just has an order.
So never fear.
Pray for all good.
There are notes and notes of Music.
The choir has humans.
Just reach out.
Pray my poem.
Use it.
~Maria
Poem appears in Maria Kontaxis & Dawn Huffaker's collaborative
project I Will Fly.
