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CARTOGRAPHY OF BABY BOOMERS
We were born into a world
still smelling of ration books and hope,
a landscape rebuilding itself
from the rubble of old certainties.
Our first maps were simple~
neighborhood streets,
chalk-lined sidewalks,
the safe geometry of schools and
front yards where mothers called us home
by the sound of their names,
not by fear.
Later, the terrain shifted.
The sixties cracked open
like a fault line,
and we learned to read
new coordinates:
protest, vinyl, moon-landing wonder,
the long road toward voices
finally demanding to be heard.
We charted our adults lives
in ink that bled~
marriages, divorces,
mortgages, layoffs,
and the quiet triumph
of getting back up again.
Our bodies became maps too,
creased at the edges,
softened by time,
each wrinkle a contour line
marking where joy or sorrow
once pressed its thumb.
Now we move more slowly,
but with the quiet elegance
earned only by those
who’ve crossed so many years
without letting go
of the small, steady thread
that kept them whole.
We were cartographers
of change,
mapping a shifting world
not with ink but
with the gentle geography of our hearts.
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