Well Maaaybeee…

On October 28, 2020 By DaniIn it needed to be said., poetry, Uncategorized7 Comments

Delta Dawn, Angie Baby, I Am Woman, we belted out as teenagers up in your room. We were ready for life to be different, better, than what we had come to know as normal. I wanted equality, empowerment, women’s rights, and I thought you did too.

Perhaps like Angie we were living in a world of make believe?

Since then our paths could not have been more divergent.

You support ideologies that would take women back 100 years and I support the opposite.

I miss those teenagers their whole lives in front of them. We were on the same page for a minute it seemed.

Like much of America, so divided and polarized now, I wonder if there is any chance of opposing sides finding common ground and coming together for the good of the nation.

Well maaaybeee…

©Dani Heart

10-28-2020

Movement

On September 27, 2020 By DaniIn Assholery, it needed to be said., poetry2 Comments

Never before 2016 has political news turned my

bowls to water…

The frequency of this occurrence in 2020 would have

me diagnosed with IBS should I seek a doctor’s care.

My body is not the problem though; it is merely an indicator…of fear…

of a country gone insane with hatred, vitriol and murder.

of our democracy in peril.

of a possible existence I have only seen in foreign lands

of the reversal of my marriage

of the end of life and my country as I have known it.

I think my body’s telling me to get moving, get involved.

I always vote, but now I’m activated!

©Dani Heart

9-26-2020

Doom-scrolling a 2020 Rhapsody

On August 6, 2020 By DaniIn Assholery, blog fellowship, it needed to be said., Uncategorized8 Comments