With Hair of Flames- A Poem

With Hair of Flames

K.N. Lee

With hair of flames

And angelic face

She smiles

Her eyes twinkle 

When the corners of her lips

Form that very smile

Everyday she acts the role she's chosen

Inside she's stuck

Stifled and frozen

She wishes that maybe

Just maybe 

Someday...

She'll smile her way to enough

Money for the way

Out of this town

Far from the country

To find that long lost love

That she's never even met

Yet dreams of

And cannot forget

She feels she's failed

She had so much drive

If only she could get away

From those judging eyes

At night 

She lays

In her lonesome bed

In a T-shirt he left

But craves him instead

Staring at the ceiling

Overcome with feeling

Her heart swells

The tears sting

As they glide down her face

To her luscious lips

Tomorrow 

She will yet again

Put on that smile

Thirsting

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