Marie WardAlonge Poems

A father she had loved but never seen.
A picture sent by him when she was in her teens.
A physical feature she had from his genes
She heard people say she had to be his.
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I have a mirror.
I look in it everyday.
Sometimes, it's not what I want to see.
Instead, it's what I want to be.
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Please, don't come up in my face
With your words of disgrace.
Saying, I act like I am White.
Please, go do something constructive-like take a hike.
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I have loved you by fate.
My longing for you grows by what I anticipate.
I dare to hold my breath when you walk through that door.
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I don't know why you didn't show any interests in your child.
I remember her having big dreams with those lonely brown eyes.
You never once took her to see your world.
You just left her to be a lost little girl.
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If pain she had, she has pain no more.
For the last time, I wished I had told her that I love her,
As I had told her before.
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Grandmother asked us to go to the store quick.
She needed her daily fix.
She wanted her L&M cigarettes.
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One day we were laughing
The next day we were not.
I heard my friend had been shot.
We were just little girls.
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You were a poet before I knew
Writing would be my dream.
I was in love with you.
I wanted to be your queen.
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It was a time of unrest the sixties did bring.
A man of faith did have a dream.
As the Motown Sound played in many mother's home,
Their sons were in Vietnam, where the fight by us would never be won.
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