Used Clothes

My daughter
The world has grown you 
Hastily Into a woman
As your blood flows

In my eyes
You are my daughter
The one whose little hand
I held on the way to school

My daughter 
The war has grown you 
Horridly Into a woman
As your little body has taken its blows

In my eyes
You are my daughter 
The one whose hand
I shall hold as you return back to school

Used clothes
Is all your mother can afford
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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