The Exception To Enter Charlotte's Web - Poem by Frank James Ryan Jr...fjr

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[The cannabis leaf is not a form of healthy life.
It has stolen a many brain of clear gray matter.
Yet, there be a formula of leaf none like all
the others... properties that differ from that
which were flying off in bags at Woodstock I,
nickel and dimed in spades at Monterey.
And hasn't life in our times taught us all
that almost every rule has its exception,
and, this is what I've recently accepted
despite my lifetime right-side aisle views,
anytime I see or read the wrenching stories
of those suffering terminally ill afflictions
that possess no cure, aside from death,
when crosses lean too heavy, hard 'n splintered,
pressing, pinching nerves to curve a spine.
Exceptions to the rule and law apply, here.
Last years breakthroughs are paving the way
for this years trials and hopeful panaceas.
Research has proven a plant once deemed evil
has stems of green leaf sowing seeds of good
good seeds for those who've born badly years,
to a point where the suffering is far beyond-
what a person should be expected to endure
or accept, as all good people do of strong faith
when summoned to shoulder heavy crosses,
that bear no good ending from this world.
Such people have earned the right to be exceptions,
to enjoy their time with comfort, and some smile,
...and the wind at their back blowing with Dignity]