Beat the Street Women's Night

On Tuesday nights I go to a special, comfortable place,
an honest place. Everyone is open.
Though we are all from different places,
we have much in common.
We all have a strange past,
we've all been victims of other people's madness and fear.
We come in for friendship and reassurance
that we don't have to be lonely
in an ignorant, concrete world.
We learn from each other in many ways.
We feel strength in numbers.
We have seen the best and worst of society
reflected in our pleasure and pain.
We know what hurts and why.
We know how to give and take.
We learn more courage daily
than many others will ever know;
by what we read and write, and by experience.
This time is important on Tuesdays:
a place to come to where we remember
how necessary it is to make each other happy and feel secure,
even if it is only for a few hours.

Jayne