Each day

The news

Brings information

Some bad

However the reaction

Your personal resilience

Determination

Brings hope

Effort into action

That understanding

Despite everything

Humanity will persevere

Because you focused

On the good will

Of the people

Choosing

Each other

Over the shellfish ego

That it is about

My future

Realizing instead

It is about

Our future

Our community

Together

Knowing good

Is inherently

The disposition

Of all of us

And even if

You see bad

Or have

Bad experiences

You personally

Decided

I will be better

I chose

With integrity

Never to be

The a**hole

But the one

Who despite everything

Chose well

-Jennie Nawrocki