So Far Yet So Close

Amidst lightbulbs and crucifixes on 25th Street,stands still a four-year-old in her white nightgownwitnessing her mother and father talking, yet shecannot hear—her shock makes their voices drown. This little girl used to be a womanwho once dwelt in this little home so long ago.A woman who found solace in a cross, in the stars,in the …