Poetry

How Could You?

How could you leave it behind in the dust and you say it to be your fateHow could you leave it to wilt there like a flower without the sunYou promised to come back to it you have notIt is lonely now without an owner like a stray dogIsn’t it creeping back into your mind? Shouldn’t it?

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Stone Soup · Children’s Art Foundation · Since 1973