“Darkness canno…

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
// Martin Luther King, Jr.

Old Wooden Ties

She hears the train thud along the tracks, awaiting arrival. Slowly looking around, her heart begins to pulse harder. Right foot over left, she steps down to the old wooden ties rising just a few inches off the ground. The train light blinds and the whistle sounds. She spreads her arms much like a sparrow’s wings. Only sixteen, her life was taken. Tragedy struck as every boxcar trampled her one by one, like the harsh words piercing her soul everyday…

“I have marks…..

“I have marks… not of birth, but of battle. Scars, one might say.”
\\ Mackenzie-Alice Smith