A young girl left to fend for herself

Just her and swamp and the birds

A tiny network keeping her afloat

Letting her believe that she is doing it all alone

 

A murder

 

Falling in love with the one person her age that shows her

kindness

A life spent in seclusion

On trial for being an abandoned child

 

A trial

 

She learns and persists

Writes and paints and builds her life

from the broken wreckage

of a family split in five

 

A verdict

 

All is not as it seems

Lines blur and the sky bends

just enough to where the moon is

secluded under the marsh

 

A life lived