Late Forties

We never thought of how smart we were 
or where life would lead us
as long as it liked us 
and then the baby was born,

scorn and derision
a black and white commercial
a break from the tedium
and talking of them
we couldn't be them when
we were too busy being
us.


(The race was always on.)
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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Smallshaw Avatar
March 26, 2018 at 1:02 AM
Thank you Caren, best wishes j
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March 25, 2018 at 1:46 PM
I would like to introduce this poem to the battered women shelters all across America, and in other countries too. Nicely put, and well-written, Chelci. All the best!
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March 25, 2018 at 1:40 PM
This is going straight to favorites; I love it! You have expressed so many sentiments that I have. I like being the powerful dictator over my paintings, and my poems. It is such a good time!
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March 25, 2018 at 1:29 PM
This makes me smile, shades of a new love full of excitement and promise!
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March 25, 2018 at 1:26 PM
Whoa! Nicely penned, John.
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