<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342454" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Present From A Thief</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Papa always picked the smallest doll, <br>Movable legs and arms loosely <br>Held together by rubber bands.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sneaking through the door<br>In bare feet-not waking all<br>And placing it in a box beside <br>Little candies and fruits</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The firewood snapped and popped <br>Lighting up the house like firework <br>On the Fourth of July…they slept. <br>Was that terrible act<br>Perfectly covered up? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">For years, I called the action into question: <br>Whose eyes the wool was pulled over? <br>How could he in his drunken stupor<br>Slip in and out unnoticed to<br>Steal her innocence? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I remember mama sitting<br>At the kitchen table, with <br>A baby in arm, <br>Another on her knee, and <br> Starring down<br>At the butcher knife. <br>Eyes dripping blood as<br>She looked at her little girls.<br>Then regret and silence<br>Slit her heart. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Years later…<br>I visited her in the nursing home. <br>She was seated in an old rocking chair with<br>Head bowed; her silver hair wilted on shoulders; <br>Each day's images and thoughts were <br>Trying to dig a passageway out of her mind…<br>I asked, ' why you couldn't -or <br> wouldn’t catch that thief' <br> “ I had to wait for the grim reaper to catch him” </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Almedia S. Knight or ASK, <br>04/24/07</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Almedia+Knight+Oliver">Almedia Knight Oliver</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=342454" data-title="Present From A Thief de Almedia Knight Oliver" data-description="Papa always picked the smallest doll, Movable legs and arms loosely Held together by rubber bands. Sneaking through the door In bare feet-not waking all And placing it in a box beside Little candies and fruits The firewood snapped and popped ..."></div> </div> </div>

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