Laylah

Poems are beautiful They are juicy and fruitful I can tell stories of berries Like those Laylah hawked A charming looking beauty A rose from the north She hawked berries for stipends No days off, not even weekends Laylah is in her twenties But her education wasn’t plenty A victim of circumstance She was born an orphan But her starts will shine She’ll leave her dreams She’ll find love and peace Laylah a hawker from the North With her heart filled with hurt But her will steady as a rock Someday she’ll find joy She’ll have a reason to be loved