Florence, age 13, responds to Micheal Kienzle
Posted on September 25, 2018
In Response to Michael Kienzle
Broken Heart
My soul is gone
My body is still here
I cannot watch as I cry in despair
Possessed, unaware
It starts a war
I just wanted to die and nothing more
I tell my brother to “kill my body”
But he doesn’t do it and dies too, oddly.
“What shall I do,” I ask myself
“If my sisters do it they’ll lose their health”
Sister is the queen
Sister two isn’t keen
In the end the dragon hero
From the other side of the land
Comes over to lend me a helping hand
Born on our side
He went over to theirs
He didn’t know that he was nobody’s heir
Truth was, he’s a Vallite
Living under the sea
But he didn’t know what he really could be.
Florence, 13
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