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“SUMMER” Where has Summer gone? The world has lost Summer Sweet little dream missing all those other beautiful small dreams seen as toys small and inconsequential casually tossed aside, disposable play, things pure shining lights smiling eyes once so bright, switched off, 'neath smothering blankets of frost no tinkling remnants of mischievous giggles, nor echo of laughter cuddling puppy dogs, sugar ‘n spice and everything nice Gone is Christmas no more waiting for Santa he's missing they're missing here ever after something is very wrong in the song Summer and so many other Seasons missing, lost, gone truth of what is to come makes us hang our hearts, our heads low because we suspect what we chose to ignore that which whispered in our minds, that, which we feared all along it's something not normal, nor pretty, but we chose to avoid the flat off-keys in that back-of-the mind well known, perpetually sung ancient song what have we in this world now become? this old yet new hidden terror breaks us makes us question all the innocence gone Do we gather in closer with the stark truth of it? Call all our beautiful children safe home; Life is big dancing barefoot in the rain fairy spirit singing her little large life song danced around a red drum, the "For Sale" sign, says it all TikTok displays insidiously, "Sold" by the guilty and ignorant a story untold begins to unravel unfold bad love buried deep in the wounds of a child bad love inhuman and cold There is something so terribly wrong with our world Where has Summer gone? A secret bed beneath a pine tree in the Bad Love Woods Autumn’s ghost approaches and warns Winter's snow will not grace It will hide every bit of once was Summer’s trace the white fox hides his face, demons watch on they feel no shame, no disgrace footprints disappear all the birdsong's dead long gone a distant place essence of a child stored away Still is Summer Summer is still long gone, months away in our heads truth is calling haunting the air electric ghost singing tears glistening walks a path home towards the frightened mother, the father They hear it chasing and calling their souls They are listening The sign on the red drum read "for sale" they have all been sold in those good ol' boy Tennessee Hills They danced with It they now must all put on It's redrum shoes, no sleep for the lies burning inside while they sing It's old song All the world waking too slowly dancing barefoot in the rain ephemeral red drum photos down trodden and hillbilly beat the sale sign reads "sold" too late to retreat The world is lost all is too late we prefer our dreams clean, neat and sweet turn our heads the other cheek life is not that dirty we walk past and through all those tawdry lower vibrations we at least are complete ignoring them and our own deep buried hidden secrets they are just bad dreams sandwich medicine smaller things shining lights snuffed out we look for spirit voices to prophecy something mystical heard and seen in the clouds and the winds underneath a legion of beating angel wings saved by baptismal hymns raptures and resurrections waiting for a holy drummer yet, we turn a blind eye to the unsavoury and the all too unwanted we are adapt at avoiding the unbelievable confronting questions yet some of us scream to our Blue Sky Where has Summer gone? Why? "The world has lost Summer," it answers. our hearts are broken we cry. (LadyLabyrinth/ 2021) Summer Wells, Tennessee https://www.missingkids.org/poster/AMBER/30746/12820/screen “Three months and around 1,200 tips later, TBI says there is no update on Summer Wells” https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/summer-wells-tn/three-months-and-around-1200-tips-later-tbi-says-there-is-no-update-on-summer-wells/ TBI https://tbinewsroom.com/2021/06/16/amber-alert-summer-wells/ https://www.findsummerwells.com/ Red Drum https://youtu.be/j4TWTGHqLAA https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/summer-wells-tn/summer-wells-mother-shares-tik-tok-videos-of-missing-daughter/ Summer Wells in these pictures - https://youtu.be/fPF5RPmSmIM International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children https://www.icmec.org/ Missing Kids Org https://www.missingkids.org/HOME Europe https://missingchildreneurope.eu/about-us/ https://www.missingkids.org/theissues/trafficking South-East Asia https://seachildren.org/ Child Trafficking Myth v Fact https://www.savethechildren.org/us/charity-stories/child-trafficking-myths-vs-facts Liberate the Children “Where Does Child Trafficking Happen” https://liberatechildren.org/blog/where-does-child-trafficking-happen World Visions “Child Slavery / Trafficking” https://www.worldvision.com.au/global-issues/work-we-do/child-slavery The Conversation https://theconversation.com/want-to-save-the-children-how-child-sexual-abuse-and-human-trafficking-really-work-153288 UNICEF – “A Mother’s Story” https://www.unicefusa.org/stories/mothers-story-%E2%80%94-what-parents-need-know-about-trafficking/31644 Madeleine McCann https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Madeleine_McCann The Scotlander https://www.scotsman.com/news/scots-children-were-filmed-snuff-movies-1521380 Thorn https://www.thorn.org/child-trafficking-statistics/ FBI https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/human-trafficking https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/violent-crime/cac Australian Federal Police https://www.afp.gov.au/what-we-do/campaigns/international-missing-childrens-day-campaign William Tyrrell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_William_Tyrrell Australian Institute of Criminology https://www.aic.gov.au/subject/child-sex-offenders Misperceptions https://www.aic.gov.au/publications/tandi/tandi429
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