Category: Poetry

An Untimely Passing

On By DaniIn Blog Family, Heartbreak, Love, Poetry12 Comments

They say only the good die young…and some days I think that’s true.

Like the day that you were taken…an injustice through and through.

You gave your whole life to others…taking so little for yourself.

You gave even when you were hurting…and it took its toll on your health

You deserved a happy retirement… surrounded by those you love

Instead, you will have to watch over them… from somewhere up above

I wish your spirit peace now…a long rest that’s way overdue.

I hope you know how much…so many loved and cared about you.

8-1-25

Presage

On By DaniIn Blog Family, Enlightenment, Heartbreak, it needed to be said., Poetry, Telling it like it is8 Comments

The older women… the ones who remember…and their daughters who grew up hearing the first-hand accounts…

Try to warn the younger women…and their daughters who bask freely in the fruits of their foremother’s labor and suffrage…about the urgent need, and the lengths to which they must go… to defend and protect our hard-won rights.

Too often the warnings are rebuffed or fall on deaf ears…the younger generations feeling they are over-blown and unwarranted.

They utter ridiculous things like…

“That will never happen”

“That can’t happen…here…in today’s America”

The thing is… it did happen…here…in America…to women.

It’s still…happening…here…in today’s America…to women!

Roe was overturned in today’s America!

“Me Too” and “Times Up” should indicate to anyone paying attention that the fight is far from over.

Everything that can be done…can be undone.

Women take heed…you must stay informed and vigilant here…now…in today’s America!

   July 2, 2025

You’re No Daisy at All

On By DaniIn Assholery, it needed to be said., Poetry, Telling it like it is2 Comments

There you are with your grand attempt to get my attention…

You address me loudly from across the room as if we were long lost friends.

You think… knowing my name and our brief history of casual cordiality entitle you to some sort of deference… it does not!

You made your position clear when you removed the loose connection that allowed your beliefs to be questioned and you to have to defend them.

Your unwanted projection of nicety was really just, your passive aggressive way of saying “ha ha I won, and by the way, how are you dealing with it?”.

But I know who you are…

And I know what you did…

You haven’t won.

Your cognitive dissonance blinds you to those you’ve betrayed

and to what you’ve truly lost.

We are not…and never will be…friends.

May 8, 2025