Age of Innocence
He seems dizzy and sometimes very still,
yet she sees her father’s hand leave his will
and then connect the cheek of her mother
Yet still her eyes lead back to her father
Every night she sees her mother’s pain tear
It runs down and is wiped away in fear
Her cries fade with the colour of her dress
The bruises on her mother signs of stress
Every day a child errands to the fridge
The key never to spill even a smidge
Her toil seeks to release his broken heart
and reveal to him his little sweetheart
Nothing can change her one love endeavor
Her daddy’s love her target forever
- inspired by Nicola's poem-
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