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Twelve

by Charlie Morgan


Twelve


Our eyes met.
Hell, she must have been twelve,
but her eyes were twenty-five,
at least.

She must have seen the boy I was hiding inside of me.
I didn’t let him out to play with her.
She wanted to play a twenty-five year-old’s game.

I wouldn’t let him out to play;
he was bigger than she was
and would have hurt her.

He was twelve forty-two years ago.

04/25/2003

Posted on 04/25/2003
Copyright © 2025 Charlie Morgan

Member Comments on this Poem
Posted by Agnes Eva on 04/25/03 at 10:53 PM

an interesting snapshot of how souls inside are timeless, but nevertheless bodies set boundaries

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