Peaches, Please

She hopes she dreams she wants to take a bath in the tub of ease without worry she's faithful grateful needs to end the struggle as a child she cries in the corner of her dreams to be awake she eats nothing she walks for miles she fetches water labours long without before meals she's tired and needs to rest she cannot rest before she sleeps she tastes hunger on her lips and sucks her own tongue to quench her thirst she tries to live but dies each day as mama takes solace in another's arms she yearns for love while she sleeps on the floor at night to the stirring lullabies of mosquitoes ants nest beside her she studies the noise of crickets, bats and dogs and prays for daylight she cries each day for rescue but hears the footsteps of a stranger next to her she sees her future in the haze of her dreams for she dreams, many.