Dawn tugs playfully pulling down nights blanket.
A single rising belly takes shape upon the mat, then another,another.
Impossibly thin arms, legs, taunt leather faces ... emerge.
Teeth, curly hair, pinned beneath mountainous bellies.

One bone thin arm hinged to bone splayed fingers lifts,
Reaching in dawns glow, casting ...
Serpent shadows, slither upon the wall.
Slow moving serpents of the dawn, here linger.

Eyes of starvation stare out.
Eyes of yesterdays desperation focus.
Eyes laying, blinking in the dust, watch, lost.
Eyes that have seen such sights now...

She has been forgotten, now she forgets.
Becomes the small child she is, was born to be.
Casting shadow animals upon an empty wall.
These serpents are all she knows.

Sunlight in its failing pulls up nights blanket.
A single un-moving belly fades upon the mat, then another, another.
Impossibly thin arms, legs, taunt leather faces, fade, disappear.
Eyes that have seen such sights, are ... forgotten


~SAS