We All Fall Down
by Kristy Baldwin

Night befriends the day

The sun casts a

calming light across 

the child’s face

Along the newly

birthed horizon,

she sings of ashes 

and posies.

A handsome breeze

asks her 

to join him,

she obliges 

and waltzes along 

the innocence that

was once mine.

Opening my eyes

now, her sun soaked face

a memory.

Running faster I

stumble on the shadows of her

simple

        porcelain

                steps.

Ear to the ground

I listen for a whisper

for some invitation,

but I hear

nothing

     for even the breeze knows

that I have forgotten

how to dance