Small round of stature she be
Small nose tilted up she scrubbed and rubbed
Day and Night she toiled endlessly long
Hands work worn and small square
Work work work busy bee she sing a lark
Music free dance her heart
Clean clean scrub scrub she wasp by
Eyes wide brown distance she look
Dreams dreams cascading down her hair
Soul aquiver harps sing when she walk by
Dancing dancing her eye see her mind of visions aplenty
Spirit soaring high as eagles dare she go fleet
Romantic sweet of roses given her hand
A feast of sweet revivals of music love refine
Handsome as the sky is grand wide
He come far wide different strange
Attired spun of spider’s heart of web refined silk of
rainbow caught
Curls of black cascade down smooth brown shoulders taught
Feet encased in Italian leather of joy
Dancers dancers spin whirl twirl of circles within
Noises cease here she comes small round sugar spice
Walking swift as if on air of puff she moves the shadow past
Elegant handsome he prowled wide smile small secret he
captured her hand
Holding her gently he caressed her soul with sweet allure
Feet of match miss no note of life mystery song
Tick tock the clock struck note that alarmed her so
Leaping from arms hard with love she dashed on feet of wings
Laughing softly she gasped my shoe is gone
Hands large hard caress a small slipper of delight
Searching far wide country in out he charged looking for sweet one of
his
heart delight
House of hell they called blue revere encased in shadow dark last to
check
Housing women of mean and one worked til dawn til dusk
Feet aplenty tried hardest fit slipper of delight toes
cramped pinched reject them all
One last little lady they beat from sight wait called he
with slipper in hand
Screeches loud with rage spite hissed they all
Come he say gentle fine try this slipper of delight
Trembling and crying she perched gingerly on wooden bench
pine feet held delicately still
Smoothing her fine little feet he
placed it sweet and woe the sky changed lights blue green yellow cascaded
around
Birds of all sing sweetly near
transformed before eyes of wonder shock she evolved revolved until she appeared
Grasping her near tender embrace of security strength he say
never let you go.
By Felicia McCaw
