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For My Son, Trapped Within

The world is too much for you,
and your screams are too much for me,
so I walk.

Soles slapping the sidewalk,
tunes blasting in my ears,
eyes blurred by liquid fear

until the aching weariness takes me home

and one night when I stood to leave
you asked to come along

and so we walked hand in hand
soles slapping the sidewalk

and you showed me the first star of the night.

Kay Pluta, a writer and editor, lives in Texas with her husband, two sons, and three cats. Her first book, There's A Yak in My Bed, will be published by Blooming Tree Press in Spring 2006.