Shake the intellect

Find a new understanding

Perspective is given

Others say it is interpreted

For there is a sunny side

Or a positive side

Where

Where

Where?

-Jennie Nawrocki

Summer begins

On the longest day

More sunlight

And less worry

Over cold ceases

For nights

Dripping with warmth

Allow us

To stay outside

Chat with friends

Over leisurely

Ganders at

How well

The world

We care for

Returns its love

With crickets

Making music

And soon to be

shining stars

We never forget

We are in

Our world together

-Jennie Nawrocki

We are immigrants. We invaded this land looking for refuge from religious bias but also the fountain of youth and the alchemy of gold. Don’t forget it was just a faster route to the Silk Road in India. All the while the assumed Indians, the people from whom their land stolen were the same ones who taught us how to survive a harsh northeastern winter. We then told these natives who by all means had squatting rites and no written communication system or money trade were asked “Where is your permit and we don’t accept that form of payment.” We basically stepped into their home which was paid for, forced them to leave, gutted it and flipped it for a higher price. Then we used Irish and Italian indentured servants to build the east coast. Had slaves from Africa in the south set the path for global trade, in the mid west Germans cleared fields to feed the east. As the move westward by Guns, Germs and Steel desolated the Latin community while continued to use the Chinese as laborers to make our west coast livable and accessible. Now it seems like we are playing King of the Hill making sure that nobody takes our land.

However, our nation was intended for freedom. Freedom of religion, freedom of tyranny, freedom to vote for who you think represented you and finally freedom to speak up when you feel something is wrong. We outlawed the Spartan and Sovereign law and developed democracy, a system of checks and balances so that no one individual could ever rule badly through a dictatorship.

We saw what a world without due process was like and fled as refugees and fought for our independence when it was unfair and restricted. Remember our birth of a nation was founded by a group of individuals who said we are allowed to have life, liberty as a part of the pursuit of happiness.

So don’t settle for substandard by being apathetic, stand up for the country you want and need, that is your independence, your freedom.

-Jennie Nawrocki

Accept all people for who they are, you will find love that way.

-Jennie Nawrocki

I saw myself

Seeing you

Every bit

That makes you laugh

Caring all the way

About what effect

You will have

It is in you

The empathy

I admire

You should be proud of it

For it doesn’t

Label you as loser

But as a strong human

Or person of integrity

If you stick

To being generous and good

-Jennie Nawrocki

Positivity comes from

Parts of ourselves

That can see

More than that instant

It started from the past

And remembering

What made you friends

Your responsibility towards others

The satisfaction to see

Another person

Even more excited

Than you

At the smallest accomplishments

And daily activities

See it

Give it

Feel it

Your positivity will grow

And will be your future

-Jennie Nawrocki