Fate

 

Round, gleaming reflections of light

Drifting soft bubbles big and bright

Bringing the child’s squeals of delight

Soon silenced as orbs burst in flight

Broken on the sharp thorns of life.

 

Come see the butterfly, delicate and free

Roaming about on warm gentle breeze

Lending beauty to build the child’s dream

Only to be crushed under heel it seems

No dreams allowed here without a fee.

 

Now older and wiser, she just waits

Heart and mind numb, without ache

Deadened emotions will not awake

Buried under an ugly world’s weight

No, life ain't no b***h it is only fate

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Adrian K. Smith]

I am not normally one to be thrown off by the language of a particular work, but compared to how well everything else came together - I just could not get this line out just right:

"No dreams allowed here without a fee."

The long and short of it simply threw me off a wee bit...