Pink fabric enrobed

Blue lines pages

Marked with a rose colored satin ribbon

Yellow legal pads

Erupting with tight cursive arcs

Of the characters in her head

Brown skinned girl bent over a book

Sheltered in her closet

Escaping into technicolor worlds

To world building in shades of her own

Hope rose from darkness

But

Little girls grow up

Big dreams overshadowed, left fallow

Buried

Beneath obligations and a sink of dirty dishes

Bright roots awaken

Cardinal clad

Gray lined pages

Bursting within a tight elastic band

From darkness, hope rose