A poem to contemplate during this whole mess.

How sad that my 14 year old daughter is having thoughts like this. Her life should be full of innocence. They had a horrific showdown at her school I guess which ended up with the students being told they cannot talk about current events (well, this current event) anymore.

So, I'll be on the phone with her principal today. I am stunned and moved by what she has written.

why?
A dream once so believed.
Is now lost.
Why are they so relieved?
Think of the lives it cost.
I feel like a stranger
In a foreign land.
We all are in danger.
Hand against Hand
Where am I headed.
I reallly don’t know.
It’s now that we dreaded.
Im scared yet I won’t let it show.
And now I wish that I had fled.
Surely this isn’t our fate.
In this time of endless bloodshed
All we can do is wait.

But no I won’t let go.
I know we can win.
In time he will let show
His deadliest sin.

:(

and shows that she processing all of this strange information in a healthy way.

The fact that the school has had to ban discussion of current events shows what a hellish hole the GOP has dug for us all. These are precisely the sort of things that high school kid should be training their minds are.

I truly fear that the environment has been laid for a clash that falls somewhere in the ugly country between the early sixties Civil Rights Movement and the Irish Troubles.

war. :(

I can hear her angst.

The school needs to be a community, get some (grown up) adults in there, pronto.

Shame on Bushco for putting our children through this. :(

:hug: MrsGrumpy! :hug:

Thank you for sharing this.

:-(

I was amazed by it. We talk about current events quite a bit at home but I hadn't realized how much she had actually been thinking about it. Hope all is well with you! I miss chatting every day!

:loveya:
Laura