A CHILD'S WORLD


Shadows on city streets

The lights cannot illuminate suffering

Those hidden in dark places

The mind’s little corners where dreams reside


Soft memories easily brought forward into the world

Others do not see, they fear to look

The stars try to lift pain through the night

Daylight doesn’t change anything


While in the darkness of the mind

Secrets held, without a whisper

No one wants to hear or know a subtle truth

Better left unspoken, unseen to all concerned


Where does the cycle break, when doors stay shut

Endings and beginnings turned on themselves

Twisting like a broken tree

Leafs hanging on while still dead


Words spoken, never heard by another

Life ignored, forgotten with the passing years

Still they linger under blankets of wool

Holes in their hearts and clothes


Broken lives and shattered dreams

Lost in the scenery of daily life

Walk on by and with heads turning away

The homeless child will be there in the morning


Michael V Hechtman Copyright 2000