Crossing Over and Staying

by Kristal Peace

Pearls in a clear candy dispenser.

Weaker than

I cannot be

She waits 

For me

.

To produce

The pearls that 

Will save her 

Life, to silence

The guns and stay

The knife that

.

Ever approaches her

Dawning cheek

I reach, I try

But I am weak.

.

And she cannot know

That war

Has come

And in time suspended

Our lives are undone

By hungry soldiers 

.

And marching fire

That pound the grain

And burn desire.

She cannot know, so

.

She waits for me, but

I am weaker than

I should not be.

But still, I bring her

To the empty well

And she searches

.

For pearls in the middle

Of hell

On earth. And 

While she searches she

Explores my face, expecting me

To save her. 

.

But I am weaker than I

Cannot be, and

Soon the messenger will

Come for me, 

Leaving her alone. 

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