Long and lank Stalking its prey along the river… Small and quick Like the dancing flame of a candle… You may toss and turn a lot

An infant opening its eyes A baby taking its first steps A toddler saying its first word A little kid running after a ball A teen avoiding chores

She curls up in the corner Eyes red from the night she has ha… Tears like Autumn leaves fall Everybody believes in the mask not… As she is swallowed by her river o…

They don’t even notice Stupid men They are to busy drooling over the… One by one The blue silk billows around her l…

Trapped in a cage Filled with rage Chained in a tomb About to go tick, tick boom Thrown in a cell

If I were a number I would be zero Neither negative nor positive If I were fruit I would be a strawberry

Parents dead By the wind she is led Needs a place to call home Instead of sleeping in the sea foa… Even when she is ill

I saw her laying there Her snow white hair surrounding he… As I watched her sleep peacefully… I could not help but wonder what w… A strand of hair lays across her f…

Little children die from starvatio… Yet life goes on Women are beaten by there husbands… Yet life goes on Teenage girls are raped every hour

I am a garden, full of magic, and… I am a ruby, the blade of Athos,… I am the soft-sweet melody in the… I am the feral cat that stalks its… I am those forgotten memories that…

They don’t know They don’t know how I cry myself… They don’t know They don’t know that all I want i… They don’t know

They wait patiently in the dark They listen for the gentle snores… She sleeps not knowing the dangers… Unbeknownst to her by the marrow s… They wait patiently in the dark

If I died would she notice Would she care The question burns within me Never to be answered I remember little