"Splendour in the Grass," for Monica Lewinsky
You did not make a mistake. No decent person would call falling in love at 22 a mistake.
You did not make a mistake. No decent person would call falling in love at 22 a mistake.
It is normal to fall in love at any age, and even more normal for a young woman to love.
In an office now sullied by political election and genuine threats of impeachment, you alone had the innocent brightness of a newborn, the strength to think of someone other than yourself.
The only indecency witnessed was the way the tenderness of the human heart by which we live is so often ignored, spat on, and finally, forgotten by prurient politicians whose fingers pinch and poke anyone they please.
May thou answerest them
only with
a
smile.
© Matthew Mehdi Rafat (2019)
The only indecency witnessed was the way the tenderness of the human heart by which we live is so often ignored, spat on, and finally, forgotten by prurient politicians whose fingers pinch and poke anyone they please.
May thou answerest them
only with
a
smile.
© Matthew Mehdi Rafat (2019)
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