From the "darkness" ran
1 friend did pull me
From the mired muck
To show me life anew,
A life I never knew
2 long depressed
2 long afraid
2 risk another's touch
2 TOUCH another
I freely choose
In dementia, honest caring touch is needed
In leadership I tried, outreached 2 co-wrkers
Found my self accused
On 2 fronts
Sexuality and assault
On Residents and my staff
I did demand quality care
Did touch my residents and staff
Now 3 yrs latter
Still defending a loving touch
Lawyers spent
State decried
A touch now 4-ever on the record
How dare me, to demand quality care
How dare me, to lead my staff
How dare me , 2 reach out
How dare me, 2 love my demented care
Corporate cares, the money line
Census down, so short staff
Count the confused falling
Do more with less, but your 2 blame
Stressing me, I can't contain
Pulling me, in favor of less experience
"Your Good enough, smart enough"
2 pull here and there
Forget consistancy of care
Corporate dollar rules the care
Not a cent did "trickle-down" 2 me
And IF current job suspects
That I look elsewhere
Terminated on the call,
So on the sword I fall
2 find a place that meets the expected call
Of Quality, Compassion, & Caring 4 All
So resume sent, dance the pleasing game
Who gets fucked 1st, in this game?

Falling into darkness,
A friend did out reach
And kept me from depression's final end
Showed me life is grand again,
Posed 4 me
So I could be distracted
2 paint my liberal views
And re-define my creative views
Finding life re-newed
Color-coded subversive messages
Freed from the corporate box, I paint
A canvass free to say my dreams
Dreams and views, my beloved confused
What dawning day may bring
Neither of us may know,
I fight 4 U,
Few fought 4 me
But 4 those who did hold my hand,
In darker times,
A gratitude I hold dearly,
2 once again fight 4 the demented
2 once again live creatively in pigments
2 those who believed in me
2 live creativelyin my liberal colored views.