The homeless children have come to expect me
prowling the alleys in run down city streets;
Wherever I look, though, you are not there; yet
I'll never forget your smile, your laugh or your hair
and the way you walked out on your life and family.
It seems now that your happiness depended on more
than I was able to continue giving: my depression;
I needed you to pick up pieces of my broken mind
and you were happy nursing me back to sanity
but you didn't accept me when I wasn't feeling blue.
You were a faithful Nightingale singing my way home
until I arrived in tears and smiles with newfound hope
yearning to begin again and out the door to perform
but your lightness of mind is now filled with doubt
that you will be a part of this new life you midwived.
The homeless children know your name, your smile,
your laugh and even your hair, they do not know
where you are but they tell me they will find you
and we will look into the rumors of your presence
however difficult they are or far afield they take me.
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Challenge to use 3 lines from other poems with the words summer, sleep and water in the titles:
Your Summer by 0BrokenBella0
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/sad/poems.php?id=994848
"I'll never forget your smile, your laugh or your hair."
Deeper Water by MorbidCupcake
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/sad/poems.php?id=814786
"But you didnt accept me when I wasnt feeling blue"
Let Destiny Sleep by Suicidal Love
http://www.poems-and-quotes.com/dark/poems.php?id=1031964
"But your lightness of mind is now filled with doubt"
