Tuesday, May 7, 2019

some children





some children
wear brass ankle bracelets
whose keys have been
lost -
their guardian angels have all gone on break and
the gatekeeper
misplaced their map of
innocence
so they wonder off
into
lands of thunder clouds
and adulthood sins

some children
look in the mirror
in search of their angel
and the lost keys but only see
themselves as guilt
and broken

like the mirror
like innocence

bkmmackenzie 2019
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let us pray for all the lost children of the world, torn by abuse, war, poverty and bullying.  
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10 comments:

  1. annell4May 7, 2019 at 12:45 PM

    Wonderful write!!!

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  2. brudbergMay 7, 2019 at 1:10 PM

    I feel that some locks needs to be broken... I just wonder how.

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  3. tonispencerMay 7, 2019 at 1:34 PM

    What a sad moving poem

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  4. Sanaa RizviMay 7, 2019 at 2:44 PM

    This is heartwrenchingly beautiful and sad..

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  5. Rosemary Nissen-WadeMay 7, 2019 at 3:08 PM

    Very very sad indeed – and very movingly said.

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  6. Sherry Blue SkyMay 7, 2019 at 3:32 PM

    The children with ankle bracelets whose keys have been lost..........so tragic. Children and broken innocence.......beautifully written, Barbara.

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  7. colleenMay 7, 2019 at 5:34 PM

    Sad but true. What have we come to. Well written.

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  8. JimMay 7, 2019 at 5:47 PM

    This shouldn't be. There are so many injustices in this world, they've been going on since time. And children still suffer. Things like this aren't nice reading but they need to be said and read. Thank you.
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  9. Kim M. RussellMay 7, 2019 at 11:25 PM

    This is such a sad poem. It made me cry.

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  10. MarianMay 11, 2019 at 6:31 AM

    Guilt and broken. And on and on. So apt, and darkly beautiful in your presentation.

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