Freckle-faced girl in the rainbow coat
Pretty
Riddled
Porcelain heart
You other girls with the unkind curls
Why, why
Won’t you
Make her a part
She is my friend and she shares her coat
What cost
You cause
Her eyes cast down
She found her smile in another place
My friend
She’s gone
A foreign town
Find me when I’m ninety
Barefoot and expectant still
This life we knitted
Will bear kindness
Look at me -kindness!
All in
All-out
Or else
I’ll settle it seems
For any reverberation
That I’d believe again
In my still hoping hand
Knowing the years must grant
The gentle kindness and fun
I’d once claimed as my faith
I think I am certain I know
Rejection so painfully slow
Tho’ kindness would warrant godspeed
Fate feels that more torture I need
You hardest of hearts
Unable to be kindness
I choke on the why
I have been fire
Blazing at life
I have been metal
Molten
I have been anvil
Stalwart and staid
I have been hammer
Boldened
What now remains
What more to be
When then will I feel
Refined
Fissures apparent
Brittle, breaking
Blacksmith have mercy
Be kind
Mocking bird
Were I your tree
A conscience surely would find thee
You’d fly too far
And feel the sting
Reflecting on the soothe I bring
My honest leaves
With perfect shimmer
Pray your feathers grow none dimmer
Striped wing belied
By your lone song
You’ve held no hope here all along
Hands, seek to cherish
Inner Voice, be kind to her
Eyes, hold no disdain
We see words have wings
So fly free “I adore you”
Land soft where you will
Those names that we choose
When we speak out to ourselves
Ought leap from God’s lips
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