Little man,
I know you want to cry
But society gives you one reason why,
You should learn to toughen up,
Be a man,
Cut off human emotion
As much as you can
Even as you face this burden,
Take care
To be kind
To yourself and others,
Redefine
What it means
To be
A man.
Tag: poem
Learning Parenthood
I don’t know
How to do what I am doing
–Fake it till you make it,
But each age changes the game,
And I am back to square one,
Learning
Learning how to be the teacher,
Who vaguely knows the lesson,
A novice at the most important task,
Of raising up the babies,
But this is how it goes,
As even the seasoned
Don’t really know,
We learn from our mistakes,
And oh there are many!
We learn from the wisdom
The innocence of youth bestows,
We learn,
We learn,
And then we learn again
Contagious Light
The light that touches us,
Touches all of us,
But sometimes we are subject to being touched
By that same light,
Through another,
And we are inspired,
To seeing stars with brighter eyes,
Color with more depth;
To appreciate the smile of a homeless man,
The plight of a new mother,
The stories of lives clear across the globe;
To want to give more of yourself
To a force that is beyond your knowing;
To wanting to know and face the difficult;
To being a fuller version of yourself,
To exhibiting your own
Contagious rays of light
Unity
Daughter of the Earth,
Spirit of the universe,
I am one with All
The Life Journey
It begins–one step
On a road that’s untraveled,
For the life journey
You have long been waiting for,
Wrangle your fears, take that step
The Ordination
And so turns a new leaf,
As honors are bestowed,
And she takes her place of honor,
To bestow honor toward the Divine,
And shepherd her newfound flock
Through life and death,
Joy, sorrow,
And daily monotony
She is a flower bloomed,
She has become.
She of Letters 