Three -- an old school poem

An old poem I wrote freshman year in college.  I was cleaning out some old stuff and ran across some old 3 1/2" disks.  Unfortunately I erased some of the ones that may have had more poems on them before really looking at what their contents were -- including a poem I won money for senior year in high school.

I'm not sure what I was writing about, but it is still a decent poem.

Three 

In that place i could see

seven stars in the sky

    i had designed

    my own prison

    then something happened

         the walls disolved

         and the sky collapsed

I’ve never known anything so great

as that feeling

            the kind so bad

            you wouldn’t wish

            your worst enemy

    once you feel it      though

       it’s different

            you wish it to anyone

            anyone -- your worst enemy

            even your best friend

    and you mean it

    crazy thing is

            you always knew this

                    you meant it

The walls are gone now

and taking another look up

i realize that really

         one’s a satallite

         two are planes

         and another a paint splash

                on the window

                from when i redecorated

In this place

             i    can    see

I will be a rock star parent

Despite some occasional fears about my ability to be a good parent, as each day passes and I see/read what other people do with their children, I realize that I will be a rock-star parent when given the chance.

A US soldier is charged with assault after waterboarding his child.  For not reciting the ABCs.

Waterboarding.  A four-year old.

For not saying her letters.

A teacher today told me that she heard of a parent who took her young children to a self-service car wash and sprayed the kids with the water for a punishment. As though she is a cop from the 1950s and 1960s.

What?!

I will be grand at parenting.

I understand that kids can be frustrating at times.  I have seen them in public, I have baby sat them, I teach over 100 of them each semester every school year.

I know I will be at better than these and other people.  Including the pastor who pulled a gun on his kid due to the kids lack of attendance at church.  Or the parent who executed his naked son over an argument.