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Inspired by Reena’s Exploration Challenge #188 – Devil & Eugi’s Weekly Prompt – Twilight

caws crow call, calling,
brethren gather to a meal,
sharing comes calling,
grief fizzes pale from within,
sea refilled – cauldron of tears.

Poetry form :- Tanka (5/7/5/7/7 syllables)

Written in response to this quote :- We don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave.

Acknowledgements :- Thank you Reena Saxena for hosting Reena’s Exploration Challenge # 187. For rules please refer here. Thank you all for stopping by and reading.

I am not here now. I serve the future. We are making memories. One day, Mary, we’ll look back and see how happy we were today: the freedom of the open road in our campervan; the exotic food we ate; the carefree way we ran into the breakers and embraced.

Such memories!

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People feel brave or safe, when they know there is a network with them, that will stand by them. Let us be that network, be that source of strength to someone who needs it.

PROMPT #187

Well, it was a long write-up. But that quote is the prompt.

We don’t need you to make us feel safe, because you made us feel brave.

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Strong hand protecting and shielding from harm 

Not just her own children but those too that are given in her care

Every morning she gets up to face a day full of peril

And changes that day into a day full of possibilities 

For those little ones entrusted to her care and guidance 

Even when the world was full of dangers of sickness 

She and thousands like her showed up at work

So that their charges…

I never felt unsafe as a child and I do remember doing Duck and Cover drills under my desk at school during the Cuban Missile crisis part of the Cold War.  My parents always lived in safe neighborhoods and I don’t remember that much crime being close by me, so I guess I was blessed.  For a good portion of my life, I lived in South Plainfield, New Jersey and I always felt safe there.  Plainfield, the city just north of me had riots in 1967 and it was just one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States that year.  This riot was a series of racially charged violent disturbances that occurred in Plainfield, and it mirrored the bigger riots that took place in Newark.  A fight broke out at a local diner, The White Star and the next night outside agitators came into Plainfield to provoke more violence.  Rioting and looting occurred and Molotov…