Written for:  Poetic Bloomings2 #422:  That Said . . .

"Words said to children may be healing, or harmful. Inspiring or spirit-squelching. Today, we have three options to inspire our poems:

1. A memory of something said to you when you were a child
2. Something you’ve overheard said to a child
3. Words you’ve said to a child

Choose one or more, and share your words with us."


Clinic setting
children crying
waiting room filled.
A name is called.
Frightened 4 year-old
looks at her mother,
who is chomping noisily
from a bag of pretzels.
Mother says, 'Well get
your ass in there.
They called your name,
didn't they?'  Knees
knocking together,
eyes downcast,
the little girl
follows the nurse
down the hall
alone.

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