When she told me
She was pregnant
I think we were both fifteen
I recall the
Silence hanging —
Then, days on the trampoline
She and I had
Shared so recent,
Seemed a thousand years before
Her, my friend, so
Distant, lonely,
Past my reaching anymore
For the daddy’d
Fast absconded;
He was nowhere to be found
She, so lost and
So heartbroken,
Back on what was our playground
My sweet friend in
Her lost childhood
Overwhelmed and fearing of
Winter worlds of
Hate and judgment
Aimed at scared young girls
In love
To share is human:
