This poem is used with the permission of my treasured friend and author, ROY WIGGINS. It is protected by copyright and is not to be removed from this page under any circustances! If I find this on any other page, I will come gunning with both barrels smoking!
YOUNG GIRLS
By Roy Wiggins
They are the young girls
As young girls are
Too old for kneecaps
Too young for cars
Too old for dolls too young for dates
With clocks still deferred for early and late
They are the young girls with still forming faces
Eyes of soft diamond and still growing graces
With vision still clear so close to the light
Still safe from the darkness and the corners of night
Still safe at the foothills, still secure on the shore
Still protected, directed, provided for
They are the young girls as each day brings
Growing hunger to unfurl untried wings
And crouch low and deep lean forward and leap
Upon air of their choosing the vision they seek
