What Do We Do With The Anger?



What Do We Do With The Anger? ©
Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.
July 1, 2023

When your very being is deemed to not matter
By powers that are spewing venomous chatter
Resulting in rights being obliterated and torn
Throwing souls into a tailspin, your spirits forlorn
What shall we do with the anger that’s growing?
What bromide do we ingest so our rage won’t be showing?
When hatred is allowed to reign unchecked
Good lives will be ruined and souls will be wrecked
To all who are feeling this horrific pain
Knowthat there is hope in this land yet to reign
We go to the polls and vote for compassion
Bring back the love, make justice “in fashion”
Right now it is painful, right now devastated
We’ve been hurt before, lord knows we’ve been berated
But rise up we shall and rise up we must
In this I must believe, in this I must trust
For good humans are out there who will refuse to cower
And our votes yet to come shall place them in power
The anger is valid, the anger might remain
But just sitting on that anger will all be in vain
If not used to morph the future into something more grand
A place of justice and kindness in this great land
Let us take that pain and use it for good
Change the future we can, change the future we should
Turn the venom to compassion, make the land once more sane
It has happened before, it will happen again

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How do we deal with the anger of injustice?

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Written on July 01, 2023

Submitted by shulman.gary on July 01, 2023

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Scheme AXX AABBCCDDEEFFXXGGAAEEHHIIEX
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 1,346
Words 262
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 26

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed.

Gary Shulman, MS. Ed. has spent a lifetime supporting vulnerable families and children. He began his career working with children with and without disabilities in an inclusive Head Start program in Brooklyn NY. He then transitioned to become the Special Needs and Early Childhood Coordinator for the Brooklyn Children's Museum for 10 years. His passion for advocacy grew as he worked more and more with parents of children with disabilities. For over 24 years he passionately advocated for the needs of these parents as the Social Services and Training Director for Resources for Children with Special Needs, Inc. in NYC. The last 8 years of his working life, Mr. Shulman served as a private Special Needs Consultant conducting hundreds of training sessions throughout NYC and beyond to help parents and professionals find and access the services and systems required to facilitate maximizing the potential of their children with disabilities. Now Mr. Shulman is happily retired in Palm Springs CA, but still volunteers his time any way he can to provide information to those in need of his expertise. Today, Gary enjoys sharing his poetry that he passionately writes with the goal of leaving this world a better place one word at a time. more…

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