Gone is Barbara Walters
A true broadcasting legend
Blazing trails in journalism
Oppressive rules? She’d bend ‘em!
Six decades her career expands
Accomplishments galore
First woman of so many things
Than there had been before
Co-anchor of the network news
Co-host of beloved Today
A writer and producer who
Kept misogyny at bay
In the world of famous folk
She did not bow nor grovel
Her interviews went down the roads
That had been so less traveled
Pop culture can be light with froth
But Barbara brought it poise
Though often interviews were charged
She’d cut through all the noise
All through her life the spotlight shone
But privately she lived
She championed those on the fringe
She gave all she could give
She never wore the mantle of
An icon needing honour
Eschewed the accolades bestowed
For decades laid upon her
I end this here, with her own words
This advice, I quite adore it
For women young and old alike
Our lives be better for it…
“Don’t fight the little fights
If you don’t get all the lines
If you’re not where you should be
Be the first one in
Be the last one out
Do your homework
Choose your battles
Don’t whine
And don’t be the one who
Complains about everything
Fight the big fights”
Barbara Walters
(1929-2022)
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