You may be feeling very small and insignificant right now, powerless even
You matter and you have a voice
Don’t give up hope
Don’t give up
Don’t give up
Don’t give up…
Tiny golden jewels
Sparkle in cold winter light
Wild beach rose
Your time to blossom will come
Spring thaw around the corner
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #218: Tiny
Feeling like a tourist in my own country
Stoned by words of hostility and division
Having to check my patience while struggling
To keep my sense of retribution in check
Because if I allow the malignant cancer of hate
To take hold of my soul
Then I become the problem
And not the solution
In response to patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #216: America and #217: Tourists
No girls allowed
Trait taught at an tender age
Desolate playground
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #155: Girls
Leaden limbs
The sound of laughter
As she fades to black
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #154: Limbs
Raked piles of straw
In feckless disarray
Bad comb over
Beauty like spun glass
Twisted monofilament
Takes no prisoners
In smoldering ash
Nothing left but a flicker
Of a life that was
Before the earth’s atmosphere
Became the human experiment
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #113: Smoke, The Weekly Photo Challenge: Experimental and The Daily Post: Atmospheric
When
Is enough
Enough manmade tumult
When laughter prevails over
Screams
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge: Tumult
A time of turmoil
Humanity on the rocks
All compassion gone
Heart hardened like stone
From pain, fear, disappointment
My internal shell
Then this loving face
Acts as the water or wind
I break down and cry
I needed this light
In a time when peace alludes
Love among the hate
In response to Patrick Jennings Pic and a Word Challenge #73: Love
Please click on the link to Patrick’s piece, The Angel. It is exquisite.
Dancing Echoes 
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