My writing has brought me through the best of times and the worst of times to a Spring of hope from a Winter of despair to paraphrase Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of two Cities.”
I’m breaking with my usual routine of sharing at the end of the week because, lets call a spade a spade, I have been let go again, unpaid, like every year, for 11 years now, for every holiday, from my teaching post until after the Easter holidays and so I get to spend time with my much loved and enjoyed family and writing instead of being with my much loved and enjoyed students, whose willingness to share their true selves with me… has brought me through the best of times and the worst of times to a Spring of hope from a Winter of despair!
And thanks to Paulas Light and her 3TC prompts for helping me to voice this…
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NAMELESS…
She might have thought
She got the sauce
When she retired
To a lush and early pension pot,
That Principal
With no principles or thought for
The children in her care,
Those innocent children, each a
Diamond, she was entrusted to polish
To bring them from the rough
To their most lustrous, luminous shine
She denied,
And so she left him,
unaided,
when he bravely told her
He was being bullied
Him, she left in no doubt,
That he was nothing;
NOTHING in her eyes
Far from a diamond,
Thanks to her cowardice…
“Sometimes you have to stand up for yourself”
As she said
Her damage, that depleated
The diamond of his right
To glow and shine,
Or brought his sister to the front of class
And belittled her grasp of maths
Until her peers laughed
Because of what as a
Principal and Teacher she had lost or
Worse still maybe never had..
But fear not
All is not lost,
Those diamonds
Once voiceless and violated
Have, thanks to the power of
LOVE
AND
LIGHT,
Found their inner sight and
Right to luminosity!
And fear not Mrs Principal
with no principles
Or thought for the children entrusted and dependant on your care,
For Face you will, the
Lynx that latently lies,
Lurking
Within
And your
Lush pension pot and early retirement
Will like the diamonds you failed to polish,
Quickly lose their shine and
Your demise will be one of unrelenting
SHAME…
You took our childrens childhood happiness by trampling on their cries for help,
whether it was the bullying you ignored or the bullying you perpetrated yourself
or the mental health implications,
You were implicit in creating or ignoring,
You crept inside our home
And you depleted
Our childrens childhood happiness
And bullied us, we now know, through their distress and left us unrequited…
But one day I know you’ll read this and you’ll realise, without a doubt, exactly who
You are
and what you’re made of,
And you’ll answer for it…
Have you been failed by the education system? Have you been bullied? Just know that I have your corner, I hear you and you are a true and beautiful Diamond and you are not alone!
Le grà,
Mindfully Marie xx
