Trying Not To See Her Grief
the woman stood still in the rain holding a tissue paper flower
no one ran over to see how she was doing, they already knew
she had been on the news for days; her child was missing
taken from a mall, snatched by a stranger or his daddy?
she seemed smaller in person, more vulnerable,
unapproachable in her grief, for her child was gone
others carefully and gingerly walked around her,
trying not to see her pain, loneliness, and sorrow
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