gives support to those
who must live with the heartache
that forsakes pleasure
in being festive due to
massive, corrupt, cruel actions,
or anomalies
tragically ascertained
at a poor child’s birth.
Unfortunately, Crystal
was a child defiled at birth
by Nature’s mishap
that sapped her parents’ rising
elation with fear.
The thrust of ambiguous
genitalia surges
with mega scary,
parental anxiety
over the child’s needs
to achieve normality
when confronting puberty.
Crystal volunteered
with the R J P before
her kind husband steered
his close friends to hear Compton’s
communal presentation
of plain solutions
engrained in three coins explained
as guiding beacons
to light a substantial path
and/or rallying banners
around which bakers,
lawyers, barbers, bankers or
child care workers could
meet, greet and discuss a shared
robust reflection during
inclusive, public
forums designed to find new
implementations
of better solutions that
must never succumb to a
deviation from
the dictum fused in three coins
pursued honestly
as the community’s shared
common ground that’s wound around
a strong cultural
identity honoring
broad diversity.
Democracy is never,
ever a spectator’s sport.
With agility
of mind, Crystal was inclined
to find subtle ways
to stray from her R J P
experience as guidance
to enhance support
circles with the essentials
coin-carriers hold
as required behavior
which inspires harmony.
Diversity is
individuality
cooperating
for the common good of all,
thus Crystal presents Tina.
[Crystal]
Thank you to all who
heeded my call, but before
we, here, completely
become enthralled with our
shared secrets laid bare safely
form a courtly state,
I must translate my feeling
of deep gratitude
into public words that must
praise Donald’s firm rectitude
to nurture always
as prelude to this day’s work.
This quaint hunting lodge
camouflaged in this forest
is the perfect venue for
the quest to invest
our courage to manage
fearlessness to speak
the truth of trauma and pain
inflicted, never chosen.
Donald, we thank you
for the use of your cabin,
immensely, with joy
as we can employ the peace
and healing serenity
as an inherent
bounty present in your place
that escapes the race
of competing humans’ fierce
desire to win the day.
We’re here to defend
each other’s right to pursue
Life, Liberty and
Happiness as we journey
through the reality that
surrounds all spirits
bound around in human flesh,
our conduit
for joy or for suffering;
for exploring and learning
and for evolving.
We’re here today to support
my newly found friend,
Katrina (Tina) Mason.
This is a circle formed to
support expression
of hidden woes that bow souls
with frightful visions.
Katrina prefers the name
Tina among her close friends.
She comprehends her
need to free her soul from Bart’s
imposed, harsh burden.
Bartholomew Wallace Childs
refused my cordial invite
to make right the wrong
that belongs to be observed
as unfortunate,
ignorant stupidity
inflicted casually
upon souls seeking
tranquility amid life’s
imposed misery.
To see a thing for what it
is, brings the mind to a place
to trace perceptions
of the creative force that
set the course for growth
and required transitions
of evolution’s quest for
better solutions
to our tribulations
and painful trials
to learn to discern better
ways to live well together
with less fear that smears
the lens of our human
sight with the road-grime
that slimes our poor vision
impairing navigation.
[Bob]
Tears may be the means
for cleansing soiled, bruised souls
or washing debris
from lacerations received
from forceful confrontations.
A warm gentle spray
in privacy’s safety sways
the flesh to feel soothed,
but first we must certainly
disrobe fully to expose
the bare nakedness
below the public show of
the invincible
strength toward damaging insults
or the shame that’s framed in fear
oozing from our
insecurities that please
venomous bullies
seeking to poison boldness
and needed self-confidence.
To alleviate
all fear that debilitates
public honesty,
we absolutely make clear
a sincere fidelity
to this signed oath of
confidentiality
and a solemn pact
to extract hurtful judgements
that seek to blame and/or shame.
Crystal will sign first
and then myself before we
disperse briefly for
light refreshments during which
each will affix signatures
to hear what is said
but adhere to speak only
to this assembly
about issues shared that lay
bare the most vulnerable,
sensitive feelings
we, each, will fiercely protect
from unchecked probing.