WE ROCK!

Good Morning!  Hope this finds you all well.  I have been doing enough "whining" lately.  So I am getting back to my role as your mid-life cheerleader, I thought that I would share some of my poetry from my eBook, Stranger in a Strange Skin.  

Have a wonderful and a blessed day!  Don't forget to "root" for yourself!

Ciao!

Joan

A Woman for All Ages

Here is a shock for you

Not all of us are moms who have led a full live

And done it all, or executives

Who have crashed the glass ceiling,

Left, and found their “true calling”

Some of us have just been

Trying to make a living as worker bees

Who buried any creative or other need

For self-expression under a load

Of work and life

It happens and time passes

I swallowed the work ethic myth hook, line and sinker

I was the “perfect” employee—hard working

Taking a personal interest in my job

My Mary Poppins’ era; But, it left nothing for me

50 opened up my eyes

I still work hard, but now I work for me

First and foremost, I take care of myself

And my responsibilities to family

Then I take a little time for me

As time passes, we need to deal with

And understand what lessons each decade teaches us

Hopefully we learn and embrace the wisdom

From our experiences, in turn

These life lessons flesh out who

We are becoming and who we grow to be

We are unfinished works of art

The book not yet completed

The half-carved sculpture

To be unveiled by the universe

And not at a time of our choosing

So let the journey unfold

And may your story be told