The Road She Walked

She kept walking—until emotions burst. Weeping, she cried out in a public space, Where no one cared enough to stop or see The woman breaking at the corner of the road. In her sobs, a memory returned: A voice, a message— New beginnings, And a man who stood like a torch of light In the dim glow of night. But greed mocked her, And laughter echoed in that cruel place— A dungeon of fire. Still, God sent a kind-hearted rescuer. She was hungry, tired, and pale, On the edge of vanishing into the day. No food, no coin, Just emptiness and dry hope Wishing to leave, To be anywhere else but there. To connect in the world of paradise Where in that place could she find? Where in that place she was betrayed Where in that place, she begged for kindness. It's a truth that she will bring And the hope and courage in her heart that will forever be treasured until she finds a place that she can call "home".