How can I help?When you are there, broken,And I am hereAnd really it is never clear what spoken spellMight make all well. If I really tried, inside my mind,Could I find the golden phrase that stays with youAnd acts like glue to bind againYour fractured brainand heart? Are there words that could start to sowA [...]
Author: AliBailey
Just a mum, not so young, love to write, shine some light, laugh or cry, don't ask why, just love, live, smile, give
Phoenix Freedom
I was born, this time, as often beforeat the tail-end of chaosand darknessand war.Shaken by horror, at last, you could seesomething worth saving,protecting,in me. Helpless and fragile,naked and small,I hadn’t much chanceof survivingat all.And yet, once you saw me,your heart recognisedsomething you’d lostthat you wished you had prized. Something so precious,so fragile, so true:a gift [...]
Misogyny
It takes a certain type of manUtterly convinced he canCategorically insist He isn't a misogynist Because he hired a lot of women. So much so he joked at swimming In a sea of long blond hair. So many bright young women there! Not his fault they never stay Once they're in the family way.He never [...]
Every Mother
Every motherEverywhereCarries in her heart one prayer: FatherGodMother MildAllahSpirit: Save my child. Keep them safe,Let them be able to come home to me. Mothers of the WorldUnitedBlighted by our biggest fear: One day our kidswill not be here. Let me not live to see that day.Let my children be OK. Every mother,Everywhere,All religions:Just one prayer.
What is it good for?
What is all our learning for if, still, we haven't learnt that war is a game that can't be won? That all is lost when once begun? Is there justice we can findthat doesn't leave the whole world blind? Each cut deeper than the last;Never learning from the past: Innocence lost at innocents' cost. If [...]
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