a Child not Treasured
i’m only six, nearly seven,
but you may scatter
my ashes here in the sandbox
where i still play
or let fly, down-wind,
my powdered bones
and let me gently alight
on my sandcastle of hope
milled with pebbles,
my bones are purified
to fragile pillars
in support of my dreams
fling my dust into waves
where I stand, ankle-deep,
in the ravaged foundations
of my innocence
“what doesn’t kill, my [...]