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Subject: Small Moments

Author:
TCN (chosen by Janel)

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Date Posted: 14:09:18 01/04/08 Fri

Small Moments

Dear Santa I'd like to know,
was there ever a moment
when you let down your guard
and were just Nikki?

Or felt yourself fall and break
like glass as the moonlight
trapped the white of your hair
in stereotypes of bigotry?

My heart has lost its balance,
but my vision is in full focus,
I see Iraq in a slip of the tongue,
in a faux pas when wrapping gifts.

Between tourists and makeshift
tents under the stars where
moans lull me to sleep as glacier
ice rubs against earth.

Insane war that rages seems to
whisper without love. If I go back
into hiding will you hold my hand
then? I feel myself falling...

Your boots are so shiny Santa,
have you ever walked along the edge
of a cliff? After the war? I watch with
innocence from the deck of my home.

The snow falls from a sky so dark blue,
Bellisimo! Bella! Bella! Que maravilla!
Will you bring me peace tonight?
As I cry in the opposite direction,
while Darfur fades from view.

TCN
~*~

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