• Antique children
    With porcelain skin
    Dressed in fanciful swab
    Holding hands
    Ribbons and frills
    The boy is
    Serious as a man
    Tilted heads
    And broken promises
    To come back home

    They once were people
    They once were real
    They once were living

    Disease takes a toll
    It has taken theirs
    Back in the day
    When blood would flow
    And rivers held dams