
by michelle garren flye
not my child
screaming
crying
pleading
helpless
not my child
hiding
praying
cursing
alone
not my child
listening
waiting
hurting
lost
not my child
this time
Poem 3:
17
By Michelle Garren Flye
Today’s the day.
Seventeen.
Amazing how the years
Aren’t long enough.
Filled with Moments.
Moments to live over and over again
And Moments to wish you had back.
Nobody said it’d be easy.
Did they?
Nobody said there’d be no regrets
Or that everything would be perfect.
They said
You’ll be a family.
We are.
We have been
From that first Moment
Of love.