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Watch from afar
Every day she went to the water,
Every day she would look all across,
The edges of bank where she lost her,
Scanning the mud and stringy moss.
The old hag of Poison Lilly River,
They watched and they jeered from afar,
When she waited there, by the banks,
With one wish on a falling star.
She waited at the edge each day,
And she stood by the edge of the water,
She bore rags upon her weathered back,
As she waited at the edge for her daughter.
Alone she was in her madness,
Since the day she had come to obsess,
She knew her precious to be living,
She had naught any doubts to confess.
The season continued to change,
The world progressed all around her,
And the days and the nights rolled over,
And no trace of her beautiful daughter.
None knew why she was waiting,
None knew why she continued to hope,
None knew of the runaway daughter,
Of the scramble down that muddy slope.
And every day I would watch her alone,
And every day, how I knew it was true,
That I couldn’t return to my mother,
And make those old chapters anew.
Every day she would look all across,
The edges of bank where she lost her,
Scanning the mud and stringy moss.
The old hag of Poison Lilly River,
They watched and they jeered from afar,
When she waited there, by the banks,
With one wish on a falling star.
She waited at the edge each day,
And she stood by the edge of the water,
She bore rags upon her weathered back,
As she waited at the edge for her daughter.
Alone she was in her madness,
Since the day she had come to obsess,
She knew her precious to be living,
She had naught any doubts to confess.
The season continued to change,
The world progressed all around her,
And the days and the nights rolled over,
And no trace of her beautiful daughter.
None knew why she was waiting,
None knew why she continued to hope,
None knew of the runaway daughter,
Of the scramble down that muddy slope.
And every day I would watch her alone,
And every day, how I knew it was true,
That I couldn’t return to my mother,
And make those old chapters anew.
Published 3rd Oct 2012
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