David Walker Poet Free verse

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Crossing the Line

Crossing The Line
David J Walker

There is a line and
There was a time 
when they were
Kids like us
Singing clapping praying eating sleeping waiting
Waiting 
	Waiting	
		Waiting
For whatever comes 
In the coming day
Waiting 
	Praying
		 Smiling
Saying
The things they thought they were saying
50 years before and
A million tears before 
The tapestry so clear before 
It blurred 

	Maybe it burned in a fire 
With those lost important papers and pictures 

The property of the proprietor 
posting rewards
For their return 

But they are gone forever

There was a time when they were
Hopeful for a reward-full 
Life 
         Faith 
                  Charity 
Man and wife
And children who would remember
As they move beyond 
This daily strive

There is a line
That cannot be crossed 
Before its time

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