In hindsight
I would
willingly
Trade
thirty years
of prudent planning
for
reserved
risk taking.
I would
Exhange
short term
security
For
long term
luxury.
I would
Deal
with difficult
details
over
comfortable
cons.
I would
Swap
pseudo
insight
For
credible
schooling.
In hindsight
I would.
Today, again, children are caught in the crosshairs–innocent victims of political rage.
My words sat patiently–craving attention.
Imagine an orchard lush with plentiful peaches, pears, apples, and plums.
Two books line my shelvesstanding as sentinels, spines setting patterns:To Kill a Mockingbird& Long Way DownMockingbird’s pages carry the weight of time,Scout’s world unravellingin front of her young eyes, glimpsing injustice’s guilty unkind grind.Yet Reynolds’ verse beats Will’s Long Way Down elevator’s somber descent,Echoing weight of streets’ cold crush.Each line stepsto heartbeat’s pace,In space betweengrief…
If we want students to think about current events, we have to move them past opinions and into understanding. A civics metaphor does that by forcing them to show what an issue looks like instead of just saying what they think.
Droplets descend on dry river beds delivering desperate hope.