POEM - The Encouragement Center

It will be OK

I offered to the voice on the phone

They won’t do that

We will work it out

I can help and you can always call

Then I hung up the phone

It was an injustice

The position she was in

The terrible weight on her shoulders

A sense of doom and darkness

Creating an air of stress

When she needed sunshine and clarity

Yesterday I had been out to lunch

My wife and daughter had met me

We enjoyed a burger and fries

A delicious shake and good conversation

And on the way home we saw a funny building

The Columbia Encouragement Center

What an odd place

So we made the expected jokes

Hello? I just can’t find my reason

To wake up and brush my teeth

            Call my mom and cancel dinner

                        Tell my boss he’s a total tool

And they tell you that you can do it

            You’re good enough and deserve to be happy

                        Get back on that horse cowboy!

What a crack up!

As I finish the conversation I get a text

My daughter asks me what I’m doing

I say a coworker needed some support

She was feeling a lot of stress

My daughter is quick to text back

            Maybe she needs the Encouragement Center