Blue Haired Girl in New Orleans

Fairy girl with the blue hair

sitting in front of

an abandoned lot

with suitcase open

and trinkets inside.

How faded you are now

in my mind

and memory

after so long of not

thinking about you.

I wrote a poem

about you once,

but where is it now?

And there was a word

painted on the lid

of your suitcase.

What was that word?

You are a person

with a life and dreams

and hopes and fears

and are you still alive,

or have you passed?

Yet, I took you

out of life and

put you into words

and lost those words

and lost you,

except for this

scuffed chalk drawing

of words

that represent the idea

of an idea

you never were.