This Poem was Submitted By: Rachel F. Spinoza On Date: 2001-05-13 17:36:31 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Good Morning, Starshine

You childhood was a myth you thought  until you heard me reminisce  then you decided we were fools  to think that we could stop them flat  with truth and  guile or sticking plastic roses into living guns and tanks Some bought their children GI Joes and mocked your mom  who was too stanch to concentrate on anything,  except her truth she sang and when you came  she laughed and died your tiny fingers in her hand Starshine, it's true  you hunger for another name one fit for law or academe but there was wonder in her eyes that blinded her to that design  you must not blame her that she died I miss you Starshine I have memorized your face at five, your mouth is pursed but still you smile  I have you captured in a haze  of pied bubbles on the porch   that you are jumping up to burst resplendent in a tie died shirt As you divide another stock and feed your little Brittany with formula from companies that sell outdated formula to nourish infants overseas know that your mother's soul and mine  are grasping  metaphoric hands  and dancing  into  Washington or Teheran to damn the rain of terror that did not begin or end in sixties songs We need you to complete love's cycle, warm the circle's  core whatever path you must explore nous vous adorons

Copyright © May 2001 Rachel F. Spinoza


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