by Titan Mikuta There once was a girl, plagued with despair
She saw blue in her life and grey in the air Demeanor of stress Her grit to the test In love with a world that didn’t even care. Was she even there? Dancing in their heads, The thought of the opposite filled her with dread Sitting there trying to put doubts to their beds. Yet shout did her head, That nobody cared Desperately wishing she wasn’t so scared. With a lake in mind, she ran from the town Peering to the water, she saw herself with a frown Desperately hoping the world would look down. On a girl like her. Slowly she realized this world wasn’t hers Not the pines, the oaks, the maples, the firs The fawns or fish or even the birds The dawns, the mist, the people, her curse. So there she sat, and wept for a while, Until the rain poured down, peaking her smile The mother called earth had looked down on her daughter Realizing she sent her own lamb to the slaughter Full of pity and sadness and sore lack of laughter Seeing the girl she had failed to look after. So there they both sat, and wept for a while Until mother earth saw a new fate for her child Spirals of bark and branches enveloped, Washed away the sadness that she had developed Her curls to vines A body divine Mother earth happy, and she, overzealous So when the rain comes it seems not to matter For people around silence their chatter Watching the willow Watching it weep Watching the rain fall down to her leaves.
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