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Blogs > wickedeasy > wicked and that ain't so easy

Love is a four letter word.  

wickedeasy 74F
11204 posts
11/29/2016 12:01 pm
Love is a four letter word.


She slept curled against the her body keeping them warm, a barrier from falling to the floor in the night. The sounds never ceased around her. Always someone moving, someone coughing , moaning. Last night they slept in an atm and she spread her coat over all of them, her body a sort of mattress as they clung to her for warmth. Tonight was better, they were full, so full they slept and they’d had showers, babies that smelled like babies again.

Her breath hitched as a woman came to kneel by her bed.

“We have a room.”

“A room?”

“Yes, in a family shelter. You can move in tomorrow.”

“Is it safe?”

“Is this?”

She nodded.

“They will help you find housing. It’s their job”.

She turned her head back to the pillow, feeling the woman pat her shoulder as she left. A shelter. Should she wake them now? her heart beat faster.

When the woke up to the sun in their eyes, they held onto each other as they always did. The oldest one saw the lady with the red curls coming towards them and pulled the others tighter.

“Hey, good morning, where’s your mama?”

They all shook their heads. But no one said a word. They weren’t allowed to say words. Words were dangerous.

It took nearly 6 weeks to get them home to their parents.

You cannot conceive the many without the one.
tickles4us 62M
7262 posts
11/29/2016 2:46 pm

 There are way to many kids, women and families in these situations in what is supposed to be such a great and wealthy country. But it is good that there are systems to help at least in some places.
Vive La Difference


wickedeasy replies on 12/1/2016 12:58 pm:
having worked with the shelter systems, they do the best work they can, but it is hard to know the whole truth every single time.

with families, over a month or so, we get to know them better and stuff shows. it's then, we can begin the real work

HamburgDave2 80M
16526 posts
11/29/2016 3:17 pm

 So Hard
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wickedeasy replies on 12/1/2016 1:00 pm:
what's hard my soft hearted friend is that children are too often afraid to speak up. how do we get our kids to a place where they know who to trust? especially now when the police have become enemies to so many people of color?

lindoboy100 61M
23969 posts
11/29/2016 3:26 pm

 Very evocative again McWickster, harrowing.......


wickedeasy replies on 12/1/2016 1:01 pm:
smiles. I wish it wasn't so close to the truth

goodatpoetry2 74M
16552 posts
11/30/2016 7:22 am

 Excellent writing.


wickedeasy replies on 12/1/2016 1:02 pm:
drops a curtsy to the kind Sir

sirleet 75M
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36 posts
12/1/2016 12:50 pm

 Thank you for your efforts to make others aware of the less fortunate in this world.


wickedeasy replies on 12/1/2016 1:03 pm:
what makes it difficult is that most people don't want to hear about it all.

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