Abandoned Child

I am the Luna Moth, I am the Firefly

I am the Cicada, and I am the burrowing, emerging Nymph

Child

I am the lowly Caterpillar, I am the transcendent Swallow Tail

I am the mighty Texas Beetle the burning Bee

I flow to Eternity

the unknown, forsaken child sang

I am the breathy green Katydid, I am the stiff Walking Stick

I am the stinging brown Wasp on my toe

I am the Soul Flow, I am the Life Everlasting

I am I know

she prayed while searching for a home

She was the raw fish no one ate

the sensitive empathy that did not exist

the translucent shell unnoticed on the shore

the dead Crab with a backlit orange underbelly

I tore it open and found her missing self

her child's views, her tiny lost handprints, her worth

recovering her beauty in the living mirror of the sea

she finally put their hoop away

Her stolen songs emerged from the pores of her skin

her young heart broke and the suffocating

agonizing shell fell off

now a blue-green Dragonfly whizzing to the horizon

discovering it was her chariot after all

Never tiring climbing over the frozen Ferris wheel

the lonely Desert Rose

she jumped and lifted her heart's song

to a gypsum abalone alabaster Heaven