This Poem was Submitted By: Nora A Jones On Date: 2000-08-31 11:52:11 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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She'll never know

Seven years, six hundred miles, now only a playground fence separates us.  I watch her. Long blonde pigtails, scraped knees, jumping rope, shooting baskets, running, giggling, innocent, alive. A picture of my own childhood, she does not see me watching,  wondering at my decision. The fence reminds me: she is not mine;  she'll never know she was. She's unaware of her confused origin, but my tears remind me I cannot erase the facts.

Copyright © August 2000 Nora A Jones


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