fresh air
fresh kicks
fresh flowers
fresh fruit
a fresh perspective
and don't you be fresh with me, missy
but maybe,
maybe i should be
fresh
a little bit sassy
a little bit stand-my-ground
and stand-up-for-myself
and stand-up-for-you
and maybe i will stomp my foot
in my fresh kicks
maybe that will feel fresh
and refreshing
and be the fresh perspective
that i need to give myself
and that you need to see
i am not so easy-going
that i will go easy on you
when you assume that i will go along with
the box you put me in
and the tongue-in-cheek
bigotry and supremacy
that you want me to chuckle at and agree with
or at least turn a blind eye to
but not today
today is for freshness
for fresh fruit
fruit named love and joy and goodness and faithfulness
faithfulness that blossoms
fresh
faithfulness that stands in solidarity
with humans who look every way and come from every place
and faithful to call out humans who hate and abuse
who snicker and just-joke their curses
who wreathe their evil in religious robes
their decay so deep
there can only be rot and crumbling
returning to dust
but
there is power in light and fresh air
fierce love and true joy
in the fullness of time these break through
restore, refresh, make new
so seek until you find
fresh strength
fresh goodness
fresh beauty
fresh perspective
let love
the kind of love that drives out fear
blossom fresh in you
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fresh - the writing prompt in my class yesterday - initially i had the first two lines in mind - when i put fingers to keyboard, i wrote and wrote - sometimes, i write to find out what i think.
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