poem::Season of Innocence

Season of Innocence
by Bel Finn

My innocence -
like a flower that is never killed,
only crushed for a season.
It grows again in spring
to be taken away again,
plucked from the garden of my heart,
stolen from me.
And I cry
every new season.

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