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Ivy Rose
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since 2001-12-29

Posts 1300
MA, USA

0 posted 2004-02-08 12:54 PM

Crazy Lily...they called her.
Pointing, laughing, jeering
"Crazy Lily, crazy old, Lily."
I could see what they saw.
A thin woman with pale skin,
puffy, bags under her eyes,
straggly, greasy hair.
Her clothes stained, unwashed,
miles too big. Nothing
about her made you want
to get to know her. I wondered
if anything was felt behind
those vacant eyes, if there was
any life in them at all.

Then, one day, I started
to pass her by when I noticed
something in her hands. I came
closer, and I saw that she was holding
a picture. It was of a little,
blond-haired boy with a bright,
angelic smile. Lily's eyes were filled
with tears. She whispered softly,
"I love you so much, Davie."
For the first time...I saw
the real Lily. The Lily that had
a family, the Lily who knew love,
once. And, I saw her beauty.
I drew close. Put my hand in hers
.........and said,
"I'm sure he loves you, too."
She turned and smiled a radiant smile,
"Thank you for saying that to me."

She pressed something into my hand.
It was a child's book of prayers.
"You take this," she said,"Say
a prayer for my Davie. He's been praying
for me to come home, to be his Mommy, again."
We cried together and I left carrying
her sorrow in my heart, holding
a little boy's prayer book in my hands.

Lily never sat on that corner, again.
And, I've often wondered if she ever
found her way back home to Davie...
had become the answer to his prayers.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

1 posted 2004-02-08 01:26 AM

this is so touching

I have a lump in my throat

Marge Tindal

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since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

2 posted 2004-02-08 09:47 AM

IvyRose~
I would share with you that this piece has touched me to the point of tears~

What a poignant penning~
Thank you~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

~*When the heart grieves over what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices over what it has left.
- Sufi epigram <))><

noles1@totcon.com

Youngatheart
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since 2003-12-30

Posts 333

3 posted 2004-02-08 09:57 AM

Ivy Rose...
I am holding my blonde haired grandson very close and crying now. Thank you for posting this very touching story. Youngatheart

Margherita
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since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

4 posted 2004-02-08 11:51 AM

Ivy Rose, thank you for sharing this touching poem. How strange, don't we all have a "Crazy Lily" memory? And how many stop and wonder and care?
All they need is love.
Love, Margherita

Magnus

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since 2001-10-10

Posts 14135
South Carolina, USA

5 posted 2004-02-08 01:39 PM

Ivy, this gave me a chill...not a bad one.
And I doubt I shall ever forget this very
touching write. You have done well.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

Posts 35113
Canada eh.

6 posted 2004-02-08 02:07 PM

Oh my..such a sad story..expertly told.
Hugs~

~ I like not only to be loved,
   but to be told I am loved ~

garysgirl

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since 2002-09-29

Posts 19237
Florida, USA

7 posted 2004-02-08 02:41 PM

IvyRose, this really touched my heart.
Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

Hugs to you,

Ethel

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