The Poem

There lives a young girl still 

There lives a young girl still 


Within

An old leaning house Dreaming on the Shoulder of a hill Beside the

serpentine Road that leads Nowhere

There lives a 

Young girl still

Her footsteps patter.

On the wooden floors She wanders

From room to room

Calling out softly 

her loved 

Nobody's there 

Cobwebs cling 

To her hair 

Doors creak

In the wind

Whimpering 

She leans out

A frail question mark 

Framed on a window 

The nodding fronds

Of trees on the slope 

Comfort her

The mist touches 

her cheeks

With glostly fingers

Nobody knows

She is there still

So many times the earth Has revolved

So many seasons Have changed 

I knock at her door 

I whisper

Let the past go 

She turns away Unheeding

She is me

My girl hood

Trapped in memories