A girl, fast asleep
As staining stars sweep
Across the moonlit sky so bright
In darkened hours
Bleeds rosy powers
As her mother and father continue to fight
Distantly dreaming
New life she is scheming
So different from hers in someway
The banks of the lake
Where candy drops fake
The landscape she dreams so often to stay
A snake of pink
Invites her to think
Asking the girl of her loves and her fears
On sweet grass she sat
Musing this, voicing that
Calling on scents to honey her tears
The snake told her so
Think not of your woe
But laugh as the tide flips the fish
Was with small understandings
And feathered landings
She woke with thoughts of her wish
Then tickles her ear
A song she holds dear
As her mother sings wildly downstairs
Her father, he roars
But the girl, she ignores
And sings too, forgetting her cares
They sing to the birds
And distant herds
Praying their cries will reach the bull
The girl had not known
Such freedom shown
Worrying not if she looked the fool
Cautions once reckoned
Took rest for a second
Peace reaching moments lost in time
For the snake was right
As laughter set flight
And the girl smiled kindly, heart beating in rhyme.
