and all the children do so.
"Simon says jump up and down,"
and robot-like compliance follows
till they look like they are getting tired.
"Simon says to stop."
"Four baby steps...Simon didn't say!"
and so they're out, the ones who moved.
She's not a baby, and she wasn't playing
children's games, but she has taken steps
to break free from the guilt and shame and
all the choices that resulted in tough
consequences we may never really hear
about. She took the steps, not giant ones
we used to make as kids, the leaps across
the field at recess, but take enough of even
little ones, and progress can be made. The steps
are difficult, response to crisis, not the sort
of thing one can be proud of, more a hopefulness,
a seed of something, anything that's positive.
Simon Says...keep going.
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