Auburn

We were asked to write a fable in the form of a poem in ten lines (with a message)...

It's not that great at all :-|

But here you go...

Once upon a time, lived a girl named Auburn and her Grandma,

In a city whose people were as cold as biting winter

Messed-up Auburn, callous and stony, never ready to give a hand

The city is accountable for the person she is now – broken, battered and panned

The child is not to blame – no, not the same child who once warm-hearted

So her Grandmother never gave up on her - “Listen, Auburn, sweet child of mine”, she began

Let love in, let love nurse you back to health,

And you heart will glow, will melt all the snow that slays your heart

And heal you of the frostbite that keeps your hands from helping, from giving.

The cold’s killing you, Auburn; don’t let it watch the fire in you burn out, don’t let it watch you die…”