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THE SHIVERING CHILD
THE SHIVERING CHILD
Who made the shivering child?
Who rejected the shivering child?
Who painted his whims on our foreheads?
And did any movement concerning this,
change or extinguish,
our own inner light?
the generator is sometimes brilliant
sometimes forever
sometimes it needs to be kick started
or it fades
looming
Did you reject the shivering child?
Did you repose his shouts and screams,
to an unscrupulous source?
To indite the inception of all?
I can feel him coming
the rain strewn, cold, shivering child
reminding me to huddle what I have
remain cosmopolitan
not to be displaced
in dark alleys
or country roads
to not remember the lost
shivering child
is folly indeed
an internal walk the plank death mark
I hold sacred
the shivering, shivering child
though I boast to no one
or myself of its fruits
or redemption
I cannot on this issue
un-clutter my mind
it kneels into
this reserved cradling
a part of me remains in crying
of the lost shivering child
vacant enchantments
eventually repel
onlookers
an abundant warning
if these holdings
bank off higher walls
let the devilish seeking
as well as the grateful response
become one and the same
gushing out
in a torrential waterfall keepsake
the newly fashioned
torrential waterfall keepsake
I know now that I and the shivering child
are somehow one and the same
it is now ok with me
