Like, if me then youFor C, from No, Thank You when I was little, like, four, I heardyou can be whatever you like and I believed it. but, like, when I wasnine, I knew I wouldn’t be a broadway child starthat my sun would come out tomorrow shining onthe sliver-giving picnic table (my stage) in… Continue reading POEM A DAY – February 21 & FORUM UPDATE
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Poem 34 – The Greatest Love of All
The Greatest Love of All I didn’t know what dignity meant when I was 8 but I knew how it feltit felt like Whitney Houston’s voice around my body a protective shielda long hallway lit by a thousand suns a passage out I spent time with Whitney every day… Continue reading Poem 34 – The Greatest Love of All
VANESSA SHIELDS 