Monday, September 2, 2024

POEM for a Souther Girl

 Southern baptist bound and tied 

For a life that has forgotten 

The wounds of young too deep and true 

American blue, red white and cool


From a father who didn't know mercy 

And a mother who couldn't find freedom 

Free-mom R.I.P. the chains with growing pains

And rid yourself of the pasture times and pastor’s lines 


Poised and coinless left to devices of her own

She strives when and if the time is right 

Or wrongly strongly holding onto a glimpse 

Of a future worth fighting for 


Tangled wicked web of stitches

Snitches get a glimpse then twitch

For the Pastor’s voice still holds its valore 

Shell never say a work about what happened in those parts

Not today, nor not ever