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lilies and rain

May 22, 2019
By redfox6 BRONZE, Saratoga, Utah
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Even when her wrists and face are stained,

she smiles through her pain.


And though she says she is ugly

I can on she beauty.


Now she frames her days with lilies and rain.

© Terrin C., Humboldt, IA

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this was a poem about my little sister

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