ESCAPED, and birthed into calm, <br />something odd is in the newspaper, <br />and ruby root falls like a heavy rock <br />to the ground, broken like a twig on a <br />tree, ruby root looks up, and sees the <br />clouds crying, and a child, that inner <br />child, waiting for peace, and maybe, <br />just maybe..........love.<br /><br />DAVID GERARDINO<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ruby-and-23-fitzroy-road/