sharon wildey Poems

Dear God
I know that I have prayed
In the past
When I believed
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Erase the Christmas tree
With your favorite ornaments
You know the ones you put on the tree since they were little
Since they were little, loving and easily amused
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I took my broken soul up to the mountain
Channeling Moses
I went to the mountain top
and cried out to God
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There is a rage in women
That will not be quieted
Or shut up
By shushing and such
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Is homelessness just about not having a place
Is hunger just about not having a full belly
Or loneliness about solitude
Or is there a spirit within that knows
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Wandering around the house
Room to room
Trying to find myself
Lost
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Yemeni girl,15, 'burned to death by father
Did you hear her screams
As the flames began to char the nerve endings in her body
As the pain flashed through her eyes
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In the end times
when the self is scattered over the years
left in the care of other people
and forgotten occasions
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Walking into the cool embrace of the woods
She is smiling
Raising her fingers into the V sign of her time
Moving on
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