I'm with Gemma. This is a keeper poem for my journal and heart, Franco. Many many thanks. xox

… our circumstance that has changed — 
we might think we’re broken or we need 
to be fixed or saved, but really we 
just need to acknowledge the strength 
that remains — the power inside us, 
the talent, the hunger, the desire — 
that stuff is all still there, no matter what 
happens to us…bodies age and minds 
expand — there’s no weakness in that — 
flesh gets torn open, but it heals al…
what you can do
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Jenine Bsharah Baines
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I'm with Gemma. This is a keeper poem for my journal and heart, Franco. Many many thanks. xox
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Written by Jenine Bsharah Baines3K Followers
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J…Jen…Jeni…Jenine... Proper names are poetry in the raw. (W.H. Auden) Poet, singer, seeker, hippie grandmother gleefully revealing herself
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