Faith Joyce
/She was a pure, sweet little girl
Blond hair in curls
A twirl in her aspect
and in her step
We somersaulted thru a
childhood together
Hop-scotching, hide-and-seeking
Fire-fly and rainbow chasing
She, with a name to match her
pretty dresses and shiny Mary Jane shoes…
Faith Joyce who never seemed to
notice and certainly never judged my
wrinkled hand-me-down frocks.
Wrinkled, ill-fitted out-fitted me - with one exception -
It was an unforgettable, long ago morning. I’d arrived for my first day of 3rd grade, happily all decked out and, for once in my life, feeling pretty in brand new (to me) thrift-store finery - Finery that tragically was soon revealed to have been previously owned by the one and only rich, mean, bully, and, my personal tormentor, Trudy Evers. Humiliation suffered.
Scuff-worn shoes.
Unnecessary problems for me had there been more thoughtful parental care.
But, never mind. Faith Joyce was there.
Faith Joyce - a friend whose song of love is still singing in my soul. I wonder if she knows.
It’s been decades and, yet, that fairylike flower, that wisp of love-at-the-ready for when needed in the open field of my life continues to bloom.
She was a child - totally unaware how often her smile came to my rescue amid life’s assaults.
Certainly unaware of how her sacred essence continues to this day to carry me through many a stormy moment.
In truth, I wonder…was she real, or simply an angel in my heart sent by heaven to be my friend.
Either way…
My Choice:
To this day
I swing and sway
making it through
holding on tight
to the light
of
Faith Joyce.
By Fran Pearce
From: United States
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