Afraid

I am afraid.

Afraid that time will forget

nay that people will forget

the history of our world.

They will cease to be concerned

about the bloodshed

the rapes

the murders.

Instead they will applaud the decimation

of cultures

of peoples

of lives

not like their own.

I am afraid.

Afraid that by the time my child grows

there will be no ozone

there will be no polar bears

no water falling from the sky.

I am afraid.

Afraid that the world will be overtaken

by egomaniacs

by thugs in suits

by the brainless insensitive ones.

I do not want to be afraid.

I want to stand up

not only for myself as a woman

but for the men and women

the children

that have been made less

by the powers that be.

We have forgotten 

that we….

the people are the ones with power

not those in the sandbox.

©Jay-lyn Doerksen

May 23/18

Liebster Award Nod

I have been a little remiss in my most recent nomination for A Guy called Bloke but it did give me more time to think on answering the questions. I think lol

This version of the Liebster Award comes with five rules. They are:

1. Acknowledge the blog who nominated you: Ticked
   
2. Answer the 11 questions your nominator asked. Ticked
   
3. Nominate 11 other bloggers. Ticked
   
4. Ask them 11 questions.Ticked
5. Let them know you have nominated them. Ticked

 

Here are the answers to his questions:

1. What is the weirdest thing about me? This one is a little difficult to answer because I do not think that there is just one thing. I suppose it is the way that I organize my closet. Not only in sections like tees, jeans, yoga pants, skirts, but by color-alphabitized.
2. If you had a choice to be haunted by a ghost who would you pick and why? I think I would like to be haunted by the ghost of my dog Odin. He was a cross collie/great pyranese and I miss him every day. Not a cuddler but he was my boy and I could curl up with him and he would lick my face when I cried. I miss him terribly.
3. Which cartoon character do you resemble the most? Well mine is not a cartoon character but a muppet: Beaker. When I get upset or annoyed/angry my voice becomes very shrill. My uncle dubbed me this when I was 9 or 10.
4. Is there anything orange within 10 feet of you and if so what? Yes, the two sides of lego on T’s truck.
5. Have you ever been in a food fight? Never ever
6. to 8. appear to be missing

9. Have you figured it out yet and if so what is the point? Not 2 be or not 2 be  but            the point? I have absolutely nothing figured out so I can’t tell you if there is a                point.

10. Given a choice between Faithless-Insomnia or Cars-Gary Numan which is                     better? Cars only because I actually know it.

11. What is the opposite of being scared of heights? I really can’t think of a good                  answer for this one. Which bothers me but as I am scared of heights, I won’t                ponder on it too long.  A fear of the ground? Which would make it hard to do                anything really except to live in really tall buildings.

I always enjoy answering questions but the last couple of times I have nominated others only a few have responded. So I am going to leave the nominating and the asking of questions out for now. But that does not mean I will not come back and decide that I will nominate. Also my brain is on a short hiatus so there is an inability to come up with some really good ones.