Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #375
To Be Compassionate by Belinda Roddie To be compassionate or to be blunt: to deliver critique as well as calm support, to be exact, sharp, and upfront, but also show the soft side of the palm, the coolness of the tongue. The balance that I attempt to strike between iron fist and mentor is delicate. I combat the tempers of the students that insist that I am not their Fearless Leader. Still, I pay them in grades, I run the affair, and if they screw up, it is I who will face the brunt of the storm. I am aware I must not make myself vulnerable, and yet, is patience more enforceable?