by Gil Hoy
When you see
a little girl
Particularly if she
does not smile
very much,
Or has a tiny tear
on her tender cheek,
You be sure
to tell her—
Please be sure
to tell—
Drawing deep from
within your own pain
That you, too,
can be a Senator,
Or perhaps
even President.
Gil Hoy is a Boston poet and semi-retired trial lawyer who studied poetry at Boston University through its Evergreen program. Hoy previously received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston University, an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served as a Brookline, Massachusetts Selectman for four terms. Hoy’s poetry has appeared most recently in Chiron Review, TheNewVerse.News, Ariel Chart, Social Justice Poetry, Poetry24, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, I am not a silent poet, The Potomac, Clark Street Review, the penmen review, and elsewhere
When you see
a little girl
Particularly if she
does not smile
very much,
Or has a tiny tear
on her tender cheek,
You be sure
to tell her—
Please be sure
to tell—
Drawing deep from
within your own pain
That you, too,
can be a Senator,
Or perhaps
even President.
Gil Hoy is a Boston poet and semi-retired trial lawyer who studied poetry at Boston University through its Evergreen program. Hoy previously received a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston University, an M.A. in Government from Georgetown University, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law. He served as a Brookline, Massachusetts Selectman for four terms. Hoy’s poetry has appeared most recently in Chiron Review, TheNewVerse.News, Ariel Chart, Social Justice Poetry, Poetry24, Right Hand Pointing/One Sentence Poems, I am not a silent poet, The Potomac, Clark Street Review, the penmen review, and elsewhere
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