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teful for us, and</p><p id="a4a3">grateful for the good things that happen to us, as we are for them.</p><p id="2554"><b><i>Jenny Justice</i></b><i> is a poet mom who longs to bring poetry to life in ways that spark empathy, connection, joy, and feeling. She loves writing<a href="https://psiloveyou.xyz/center-52927449220c"> love poems</a>, <a href="https://psiloveyou.xyz/love-in-the-time-of-climate-change-11a88bb642f4">climate change</a> awareness poems, <a href="https://readmedium.com/you-can-write-a-poem-c5663d17c48d?sk=50930fec528fcd31d3fc6dffe7b77407">poems for kids</a>, and of course,<a href="https://readmedium.com/your-voice-on-the-page-19ab8993ed8e"> poems about poetry </a>and poets. You can follow her on <a href="https://medium.com/@jennyjustice">Medium</a> and at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/jennyjusticewriter/">Jenny Justice, Writer</a>. You can follow her poetry at<a href="https://medium.com/justice-poetic"> Justice Poetic.</a></i></p><div id="e6e8" class="link-block"> <a href="https://readmedium.com/let-go-c342192558df"> <div> <div> <h2>Let Go</h2> <div><h3>An American Haiku Duo</h3></div> <div><p>medium.com</p></div> </div> <div>

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A Poem

Sometimes the people we want to react first

say congratulations first be there first

say they are proud of us first be happy for our happiness first

just aren’t just don’t

just won’t and then I suppose,

we have to look around at all of those who did, and be grateful, be honored, be happy

the ones we want to see us for who we are, — birth or relation, blended or blood,

to celebrate us, to run to us with open arms — to say you are my family —

might just not — and they might just not

read this poem either let it go let it go let it go

I suppose people may accept or tolerate or even love us in different and sometimes distant ways,

but oh what it would be like to feel that they are grateful for us, and

grateful for the good things that happen to us, as we are for them.

Jenny Justice is a poet mom who longs to bring poetry to life in ways that spark empathy, connection, joy, and feeling. She loves writing love poems, climate change awareness poems, poems for kids, and of course, poems about poetry and poets. You can follow her on Medium and at Jenny Justice, Writer. You can follow her poetry at Justice Poetic.