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    A young girl is told from a young age that she should find a man to take care of her and cherish her smile and shine. She grows up skipping rope and then skipping class as she becomes a woman and goes to college seeking freedom and choice. At 18 she believes the self-doctrine of quiet wariness that bad things won't happen to her, but love proves fascinating in a troubling way when "no" is not respected and she is left crying alone about an unwanted encounter. The poem suggests that true love, as described in Corinthians, is patient, kind and does not overpower another's will.

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    A young girl is told from a young age that she should find a man to take care of her and cherish her smile and shine. She grows up skipping rope and then skipping class as she becomes a woman and goes to college seeking freedom and choice. At 18 she believes the self-doctrine of quiet wariness that bad things won't happen to her, but love proves fascinating in a troubling way when "no" is not respected and she is left crying alone about an unwanted encounter. The poem suggests that true love, as described in Corinthians, is patient, kind and does not overpower another's will.

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    A young girl is told from a young age that she should find a man to take care of her and cherish her smile and shine. She grows up skipping rope and then skipping class as she becomes a woman and goes to college seeking freedom and choice. At 18 she believes the self-doctrine of quiet wariness that bad things won't happen to her, but love proves fascinating in a troubling way when "no" is not respected and she is left crying alone about an unwanted encounter. The poem suggests that true love, as described in Corinthians, is patient, kind and does not overpower another's will.

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    A tale as old as time

    Little girl
    with her pink sequined shoes
    outshone
    only by her smile

    Find a man to take care of you


    To cherish that shine
    That’s what they told you
    Is it not?

    Skipping rope becomes skipping class


    Growing girls become burgeoning women
    College must mean freedom
    College must mean choice

    Unshaken and 18
    Earnest is the self doctrine
    Quiet is the learned wariness
    That could never happen to me

    Love is a fascinating thing


    Is it not?
    Loud enough for him to forget
    No means no
    Loud enough for you to accept
    No means yes

    Unnerved and 18
    Perhaps this is a right of way
    You cry alone replaying that day
    Oh how he loves me

    Love is
    As Corinthians would say
    As patient as his tapping foot
    waiting for your tears to stay put
    As kind as the blame
    when you finally proclaim
    me too

    - KJS

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