Hello everyone;
I did say "haphazardly" participating in the April PAD Challenge. This is why day one is being posted after day two.
Day 1 prompt of "write an optimistic poem"
Not Dead Yet, Me
Is it really such a tragedy
that my sentences are raggedy
words tread together by similarity?
The conversation is still defiantly
expressions of me.
Is it really such a travesty
that I wander aimlessly?
When I can travel through time so easily
…our life history
…a life lived outrageously.
Is it really such a disparity
that I have forgotten the melody
of your name? Still there’s some clarity….
I know the feelings of family
and passions intensity.
Is it really such an indignity
that something once familiar is now a novelty.
Or that simple tasks escape me.
I still dance to life’s jamboree
and sing majestically.
Is it really such a finality
even as I become more absentee?
There is plenty of life in my legacy.
Don’t bother writing my eulogy,
when there’s still time to create a memory.
©2024 Delaina Miller
2009 What a year we thought it would be,
New president
New hope,
Awareness of diverse abilities yet…
2009
What a year it could have been.
It is like a birthday, I guess another year has passed
but do we feel any different from last year?
Do we act any different than we did last year?
2009
Education undervalued and underfunded.
Libraries under threat from ignorance,
Children kicked out of pools because of the color of their skin
Graves of love ones turned to mass graves to make a profit.
2009
What a year it could have been.
Not only have we not learned to value knowledge
We have not learned to value life.
2009
We know how to dine
but we are not fine.
I love it! I thought everything you said was very poignant! It's important to keep our eyes and our minds open to the shortcommings of our society in order to fulfill our potential.
Jake
Thank you. Love and support are wonderful and much needed in this world.
Racism is still a problem in this land of the free. I for one agree with Gandhi that if one of us is oppressed then we all are. Ironic we still seem to be oppressing each other.
The other part was the Burr Oak Cemetery. It is heart breaking and very troubling.
Thanks again for you kind words of support.
I love this post. What a beautiful AND truthful poem. I felt that the simplicity of the poem made it more moving to me…oh and I read in the newspaper about that club outside Philadelphia that kicked the "non-white" visitors out. Crazy, scary and horrible that we still live in a country that treat people that way!