The angle of the corner,
The sweet union of two walls,
A home for the child bound
In a house of horror and loss.
Sit down, little love.
Put together your puzzle pieces.
Make a family of four paper dolls
And pray with small fists entwined
Pray for a future where bliss is.
Rest your small back,
Black and blue,
Dressed in pink ribbons,
Your tiny fingers paint pictures
Of a little mouse in red dancing shoes.
Four walls are the painted cages,
Of a child with no choice--
Gilded or tasteless,
But two walls together make a corner,
Where the mouse with red shoes
Can dance on stages.
The sweet union of two walls,
A home for the child bound
In a house of horror and loss.
Sit down, little love.
Put together your puzzle pieces.
Make a family of four paper dolls
And pray with small fists entwined
Pray for a future where bliss is.
Rest your small back,
Black and blue,
Dressed in pink ribbons,
Your tiny fingers paint pictures
Of a little mouse in red dancing shoes.
Four walls are the painted cages,
Of a child with no choice--
Gilded or tasteless,
But two walls together make a corner,
Where the mouse with red shoes
Can dance on stages.
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Ifera R. Tagatia is is an Indian writer and artist drawn to the human condition and the importance of hope shaped by an early life of survival. Her work draws on surrealist and symbolic explorations of the human psyche, existentialism, feminism, and her own experiences.
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