Pink, choice of color of all four-year-old girls,

And avoided by boys,

Creating future stereotypes,

Based on interpreting a wavelength,

In the mind.

making Pink a word, not a color?

 

And what someone says it means.

Snow

 

Time to ascend?

Sometimes stairs seem to wide,

Negating their invitation,

To seek more,

And discover if the path is a calling;

 

Or a distraction.

 

Seeing through,

Past the leaves in front of my eyes,

Seeing through,

Beyond the plane of focus which has me ignore others,

Seeing through,

Ignoring the large and noticing the small.

 

Seeing through,

All of which is in my life.

 

Sitting apart from the class,
Everyone else having fun,
Chatting, sharing, smiling.
I sit in silence because of what …?

Feeling sorry and rejected,
Making images of ogres who were friends,
just a few moment ago.
Stewing now, my knotted stomach stops a fertile mind,
Dead in its track.

When a simple question can unravel all.
Ask it today.