apad 26

[bardiphouka]

In coltish steps of laughter and tear
fear and hope unite in twinned threads
bright lines as her futures arrive
live reminders change life's reason

arrange her priorities like flowers
howers that spread a bleak blankness
dead feelings as the needled sorrows
borrows a debt from the next dawn

gone now as laughter in child voice
after time brings the feeling that she grows
knows that she feels new understanding
kneels sometimes by her daughter and son

hardwon each clean tomorrow comes to land
hand in hand her children bring her home.