Pink fabric enrobed
Blue lines pages
Marked with a rose colored satin ribbon
Yellow legal pads
Erupting with tight cursive arcs
Of the characters in her head
Brown skinned girl bent over a book
Sheltered in her closet
Escaping into technicolor worlds
To world building in shades of her own
Hope rose from darkness
But
Little girls grow up
Big dreams overshadowed, left fallow
Buried
Beneath obligations and a sink of dirty dishes
Bright roots awaken
Cardinal clad
Gray lined pages
Bursting within a tight elastic band
From darkness, hope rose
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