Protection and Nurturing

Daily writing prompt
What’s a thing you wish schools actually taught?

I could enter into the melee,

And ask should we be discussing sexuality?

At five it seems ridiculous,

At sixteen actually quite serious,

Perhaps it’s a headline grabbing subject,

Making humanity into an object,

Overkill can be one dimensional,

Acknowledgement and Respect are consensual,

Don’t dance around the subject it’s no shame,

Those Christmas Discos were not to blame,

A first kiss and a playground brawl,

Life is complicated that is all,

To understand is to get the fix,

Honestly it’s all just part of the mix,

To make a mistake is no shame,

To acknowledge and forgive must be our aim,

We must protect and nurture,

For these young people are the future

Empty playground with swings and benches outside a lit brick school building at dusk
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