Child

I found you and you just grinned at me as if to say you can’t escape that night this easily
When I...

“Grandma I can’t go out to see my friends today we are not allowed to play”
So I sit typing back to...

Am I meant to ignore the arrows that pierce me or the spit that lands in my face. Why should I brush off...

Dawn...
And there she rises
A mighty power
Mother's kiss

With loves arms...

Like a child, I find my boss makes me nervous
And I replay thoughts of childhood in my mind.
...

I knelt in the Church, hands clasped
Head bowed
Strained thoughts and distracted mind....

A Little Love
Starting to bloom
The kind of love
That seems so new
I little...

I
Tuck
You
In
Knowing
That
In
Sleeping
And
...

I close my eyes and there
I see
The little girl that once
was me
She watches...

Your son had never swam so you threw him in the lake.
He could've died, you don't even care that you...

Time to sleep my little blue eyed one
Today for you is now over and done
You have...

When you hurt a little child,
You will take from him something he can never get back.
In his...

Can't understand what you want me to do
Go for a walk when I have just turned two
You feed...

Wicker blues,
And rocking chairs.

Longer days,
Weathered sidings
And rag dolls...

The Swing…

It had seen many years of laughter, tears and of grazed shins,
The old...