Momentarily struck
Forevermore stamped
Of whose appearance, lights up
A fabled image.
Eye and heart, both, in each
Unhoped for beauty!
Ghost moth, twilight's. Pale fay, night's.
And a girl of age!
INNOCENCE, BETRAYED
A child, broken into fragments, with weeping love,
Scattered in the wake of destructive force -
I question you in the justice court
For your eternal silence, which should scream
Its rage at cruelty of sudden night,
But all I find is an unreasonable void,
Swallowing any substance of faith
And spitting it out in front of grief.
I walk away from unhoped-for dreams,
No longer wrestling with what once mattered.
A restless journey I take
Without end, sorrowful for lost
Understanding I cannot keep
Nor wish to in my fragile heart.
I am a child within the adult, crushed
By circumstance, past still clinging
To my bleeding flesh, yet I am an adult,
Whose childhood is over, buried
In a long-forgotten graveyard.
I live myself, firm of purpose,
Not flinching from what I know
I must determine as my destiny,
And in the finality of all things,
I will find my own love.
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