A Child Smiled

Hard day

         Endless drudgery

                 Capped by seething innuendo

Crashing, slashing ankle high,

Forehead bashing on the wall,

 

Teardrops just about to burst

Flooding cheek with heavy brine

From endless oceans dark and deep

Where evil is her queen.

 

Feeling firmly pistol-whipped by

Muggers unidentified,

Taken for a Jersey ride

Where victims often don’t survive.

 

Just when hope was all but lost at

The very edge of hell,

A miracle on lofty wings…

 

A child smiled…

         All is well.

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