To Be Your Family

This is a 16 line poem. Composed of four heroic couplets (rhyming iambic pentameter ). Below are my {shoutouts } as usual. The list includes all who were not mentioned in my previous piece, to make it fair. My love will continue to extend to all 🙏🏽🌹 (Roots and Branches Challenge )

By Caitlin CharltonPublished 11 months ago • 1 min read

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And if I may be thin like paper leaves
That place awaits me in the tree sleeves
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Though birds go high so I will start to fly
I won’t be low in mind under the sky
--🪾🌳🍁🍂
Say you love me like the birds of the tree
Though you say blood is all you see
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My arms are wide open to you so be
For I will wait to be your family
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I will spread out my arms like a bird
Then you will cry no more when you are stirred
--🪾🌳🍁🍂
Come sit upon my bed that I may prove
My love for you will never be removed
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My eyes my face may be different but I
But I see the beauty as the tears go by
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So cry my dear one, now you have found love
You shine so brightly in my eyes oh dove
~Caitlin Charlton ~