Not quite a native Ripley Countian - she attended only her last year of high school in Doniphan though she taught in the R-1 system for 32 years - Teresa (Pearson) Lee delights in surprising readers and herself with anecdotal observations of life in general. Maybe you can blame her St.Louis roots for a quirky humor and some slightly-askewed opinions, but never doubt she writes from the heart.

As I Ponder What Will Be

Posted Wednesday, November 4, 2020, at 7:35 AM

Our November election is next week.

Into the future I cannot peek

But if I could, what would I seek?

Answers for all, peace for the meek.

It isn’t yet Halloween

As I ponder what will be seen.

News coverage has been keen,

American trust unusually lean.

By dawn’s early light

The day after election night,

Will we face added national blight?

With more violent chaos in sight?

Or will a kind of peace reign,

Our politics no longer bane.

Plans to erase piercing pain,

Putting justice in the fast lane?

RIght now it’s anybody’s guess.

Our nation seems such a mess.

I’m worried, I must confess.

I loathe this increasing distress.

Not all is the fault of pandemic.

Anti-everything is problematic.

Our actions must be strategic

To rise above issues systemic.