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Stolen Innocence 
by Rie Sheridan Rose

Beside a lonely country road,

a pristine bicycle stands alone.

The paint is pure as driven snow,

a bike a girl’d be proud to own…

.

A wire basket on the bars

filled with flowers newly picked

seems to say she’ll be right back,

before the clock has further ticked.

.

And yet the child who owned the bike

has been forgotten by her peers.

The flowers wither, wilt and die…

to be replaced for all these years.

.

Her parents never got a grave

where they could go to sit and weep.

She was there, and then was gone—

gone where, a secret shadows keep.

.

I sometimes drive by in my car,

and change the flowers resting there…

Remembering the night she died,

the victim of a childhood dare.

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Fiction © Copyright Rie Sheridan Rose
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Author Rie Sheridan Rose:

Overheard in Hell:
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…unless you like the touch of an icy finger up your spine.

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