Day seven of the Poem a Day challenge. Prompt: "Until ________"
UNTIL THE LIGHT TAKES US
under that bridge
flows the Arkansas river
where my brother almost drowned
when he was seven
and I almost drowned saving him
under that bridge
I spent the night
sleeping on a piece of cardboard
I didn't know until morning
that the cardboard covered a dead dog
under that bridge that child is sleeping
dead these thirty years
for better or worse
that's our life
until the light takes us
if it will take us
we will go home
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