Photograph Prose Submission - Lost Innocence

Like TFE I seen the weblink (http://www.photographprose.com/) for this exciting idea through the Woman Rule Writer blog.  Anyhow, I was delighted when they accepted my poem  'Lost Innocence' and combined it with an image by Mario Jean, (see link to his website  http://www.madocphoto.com/.  You can critique this poem and other prose submissions on their site, leave a comment or cast a vote!

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Lost Innocence

I see my childhood caught in stone,

the aged-child within my bone.

Her eyes, I see them in black mass,

tinged pupils fleeting  from the past.

I see her sometimes on the street,

or late at night when I do sleep.

That day we all went to the park,

swings and noise and air that swept you up real high,

escaping worlds into the sky.

I didn’t know not even then,

that life would not be that again.

A story told, that always stayed,

of loss that never could replace,

the little girl that I had known.

The eyes, I see them in black mass,

the ones that say, they can’t go back,

to five years old, changed in a day,

to stone, clay innocence,

that flew away.