Monday, March 10, 2014

Ashley's First Sonnet (Draft 2 of Remember Her)

Remember Her 

I remember her energetic and soft graces:
She saw the world through a clear, new glass;
one without smudges or scratches to limit her view.
Through her eyes, everyone was equal, all things had value;
no matter how she looked through the glass, everything looked the same.
People were people, age and race did not make a difference,
houses were houses, size and location were not a concern,
Fun was fun, there was no reason to have limitations.
But each experience left a smudge on her glass or a scratch in her view;
the more aware she became of the world, the less clear it became.
Each scratch cut something from her, every smudge made her forget;
she struggled against blindness, from the black hole pushing her down.
She battled, she looked death in the face, until I came, and I took her place.
She disappeared, she became lost; she did it so I could exist but at what cost?


By Ashley Smith

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