Showing posts with label Rose Cook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rose Cook. Show all posts

Monday, March 1, 2021

A Poem for Someone Who is Juggling Her Life


This is a poem for someone
who is juggling her life.
Be still sometimes.
Be still sometimes.

It needs repeating
over and over
to catch her attention
over and over,
as someone who is juggling her life
finds it difficult to hear.

Be still sometimes.
Be still sometimes.
Let it all fall sometimes.

--Rose Cook



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