Oh, the Places You've Been!
You know that feature on Facebook that shows you things you've posted in prior years on today's date? I have a love-hate relationship with that thing, because sometimes it pops up with things that just gut me. But other days it shows me things that definitely bring me a moment of joy. Then there are days, like today, where it does both. Many years ago, when I was a lawyer in private practice,* I was indirectly involved in a seriously awful criminal case. I won't go into the specifics, but a really young girl had to testify against her own father about things that many adults can't even bring themselves to mention. She got into my heart, and one night when I was thinking about her and everything she had been through, this poem just came to me. I wrote it in exactly the amount of time it took to get the words down on paper. It is obviously inspired by a similarly titled work by Dr. Seuss, but is not intended in any way to infringe on his copyright. (If you are from Dr. S...