A Chalk Line Mother

She draws the outline of her past one of society’s outcasts she chalks the mother sadly missed the tears she tries to resist a chalk line mother is all she knows a life full of highs but mostly lows no age to be left alone buts it’s all she as ever known she lies within the outlines shape looking for an escape rolled up tight like a ball covered with her mother’s, imaginary shawl the peace of sleep she gravely seeks her mind released to inwardly weep mother's should not leave this earth before their off spring, who they gave birth NB this was inspired by a picture on facebook a small child in an indian orphanage had drawn a chalk outline of her mother on the floor and rolled up and gone sleep inside the lines and someone had took a picture.