If the Sun Will Ever Come

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I know she’s thinking
I’ll probably die at fourteen
as it consumes her often

I’ll have no fifteenth birthday
she tells herself
I will never see sixteen
she murmurs
seventeen is a lifetime not made for me
she decides

I know that she’s thinking
I’ll probably die at fourteen
because we are one
she is all the same body and flesh as I

she is the person I was
before I survived

If I had to
I would not ask to live it again
but sometimes I wish
I could go back in time
and tell her
that the darkness goes away
and that the sun will come

Somedays I wish
I could go back in time
and tell her
I lived

I know she didn’t mean to live past fourteen
but I’m older now
and life is not so bad

Somedays I wish
I could go back in time
and tell her
just one thing
because I think she might smile
if only she knew
that there are no longer nights
when I wonder
if the sun will ever come

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Poem and photography by Hazel J. Hall
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