Mine

Pain trains an undisciplined mind.

I will end yours if  you end mine.

Little feet, little feet are playing

Hopscotch among the landmines.

Hope has worked miracles before.

If  yours didn't, how can mine?

I could have learned to welcome night,

If only  you had been mine.

How dare you put words in God's mouth,

Shail?  Why not. He put ashes in mine.