Poems and Stories

Thursday, March 10, 2022

The Gulf Between Us - Viola - from the South

 She stood on the beach

face wet with tears

staring into the sun

northward for years


Her baby left in Miami

she was just eighteen

pregnant and alone

thinking what could have been


Her life was broken

old ways, her scorn

Her family divided

from the day Marguerite was born.


Malecon held her close

promising love, a new life

He died without knowing

his baby, his wife.


Her baby girl was gone

to a new life and home

A new family too

A dream once her own.


As the sun set over Cuba

she waded in deep

and started to swim

To her baby and to sleep...



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