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glaring standard
friends with mettle tell me
only after i ask
what calamities
have near-felled them
their courage not to whine
makes all the more glaring
and pathetic the current standard
of men’s behavior
not alexei
i guess no one taught you manliness
so bluff, bluster and bullying
are all you know except to whine
when things do not go your way
blame is due someone else
anyone else but self, though you
claim credit for all that goes well
near you
no, despite your attempted comparison,
you are not alexei navalny
healing greater than wounding
“Healing has greater power
than wounding and inflicting pain”
implies that love has greater power
than fear, and i wonder at that
given that fear is so abundant
and primitive a newborn reacts
in fear to falling yet accepts warmth
and nourishment as part of self
so overcoming fear with love
is a learned response
but overcome, it does
for those with courage
and it takes love to even attempt
to try to heal
Pastor David
comment from Eileen gives author hope
a gentleness of spirit
warm and giving despite disappointment
fighting spirit without violence
but with love and generosity
he draws my admiration
every Sunday with his sermon
and his supportive smile
gracious response
a brilliant thought of an author
who has captured and wide, loving
audience for her work
and then the gathered courage
to reach out to Jane Kirkpatrick
with her own loving story
of mother’s courage growing up
amid annihilating weariness,
ill-treatment and poverty
the response, far more gracious
than our Susan could have imagined
ah, the difference between big and small