Saturday, June 6, 2009

Here is the path children choose, Karen Ewing

Here is the path children choose

to smoke and kiss and

speak out loud forbidden dreams

of reds and blues

Where wild naturisms twine

with willow, horse tail and vine

Hidden and free

from grown up cares

lost for a time

like mariners

upon a rolling sea

of grass and soil and revelry

Long ago this was me

a bewildered girl dressed in black

looking for safe passage

back among tangled

reeds of broken hopes

of shameful deeds

rough hands upon my thigh.

Whispers in the darkness

groping for a prayer

weeds tangled in my sweater

crushed flowers in my hair.

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