the simple gardener
By The CanarY
i could have paved her streets in fine thin sheets of diamond weeping rainbows from face to face encased her worries & world-weary lack of levity in heaviest suits of gold sunk them deep in silent waters to land in atlantis among the ivory spires i could have instead i held her feathers firmly invisible injustice held her down pinned her down to the ground i discovered hovered above her cowering and starting to take rootSometimes, as badly as we want to be the best person that we can be, we're only able to be ourselves. Written October 7th, 2001 © on Oct 12 2001 06:10 AM PST 18 • 0 • 8
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"i could have paved her streets..."