Today is Tuesday, so it's a Two for Tuesday prompt! Here are your two options:
- Write a love poem.
- Write an anti-love poem.
This is my second attempt at this. I tried a cleave poem initially, about "showing love" versus "telling love" but it just wasn't working. So here's another 5/4 poem. It is another school poem.
A LOVE POEM
I tell Brittany
Tenaira, Angelanne
that I love them.
That’s a lie,
they tell me. I know
I should own up to it,
the fact that I
tell the truth,
but I do not, tell them
that I exaggerrate
because they will
not believe
me, cannot believe
a teacher could love them,
since they do not
love themselves
or me. I tell them
that I care. Angelanne
smiles and believes
that I do.
She will still be late
tomorrow, or absent.
She will still fail
math this year
even with my love.
I tell Brittany
Tenaira, Angelanne
that I love them.
That’s a lie,
they tell me. I know
I should own up to it,
the fact that I
tell the truth,
but I do not, tell them
that I exaggerrate
because they will
not believe
me, cannot believe
a teacher could love them,
since they do not
love themselves
or me. I tell them
that I care. Angelanne
smiles and believes
that I do.
She will still be late
tomorrow, or absent.
She will still fail
math this year
even with my love.


Seeing some polls and results on Facebook, and some forwards from other friends, I think it's time to get my thoughts and opinions on separation of church and state all in one place. My bottom line opinion is that I advocate it in all cases. I believe we should remove "under God" from the pledge and "in God we trust" from our currency.