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08/16/2008: "Peace Child"

Photographs of forgotten memories, of faded empty nights
an abandoned medley played
so softly
through the lonely fight
She shuffles through those tattered papers in the attic drawers,
connect-the-dots, alphabets, colored umbrellas,
dinosaurs
A day of reminiscing with a melancholy smile
kindergarten's playgrounds,
now a forlorn freedom, a world of battered dreams

Clustered summer nights, she trembles in her room
clinging to the teddy bear she used to know so well
Now in his deep black eyes are fireworks and cannonballs
and reflections of deep enmity
between nations and rulers,
so large and so far away
A hurricane of soldiers parade through her streets
dancing flames of burning hearts and beating broken wings

Tomorrow's solemnity will settle on sidewalks
a sheet to cover the tiny footprints
of every child, every heart
in the midst of this war
An end will come, the day undone
she'll swing in the park
among the yellow daffodils