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Kisses and Popsicles Spring Poetry Contest

2008 - Third Place Winner: Niomi Klassen
 

Fleeting Shadow
 

Only a shadow
That little girl
Wandering, lost

Sweet and innocent, assumed
So little, how could she be harmed

Sometimes wonder
Did her family love her
Like a burden, too strong
Thrown away

Where is she?
Only God knows
Lying on a train track
Moving so fast, cut off
Buried beneath the earth
No way out
Awake and alive
Torture, pain and suffering

Seems unimaginable
Just a dream
Little spark, touch of hope
Is she still here?

She never saw that day
Taken away
Like a rose, fades into darkness
Hoping the light would find her

She didn’t deserve to suffer
No more fear, no more pain
All sorrow gone
Living the life she lost
Soaring, on angel's wings
 


 

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