Free of Heart

She wears her innocence like a dress,
that was made today
Frolicking around the forest floor,
so happy and so gay

Seeing life as though a child,
around the trees she spins
Condemning few for what they’ve done,
no matter what their sins

The town folk call her simple,
for her charming point of view
Yet, forgiveness is quite difficult,
at least for me and you

Her days are carefree as she toils,
in her shop of odds and ends
Meeting stranger’s every day,
who wind up being her friends

For life has taught her lessons,
to take it one day at a time
Trying to live in future tense,
to her it seems a crime

Losing all that she had loved,
a husband and small child
War has been an angry friend,
that stole what she beguiled

Though her faith does carry her,
as if somehow she has wings
To whisk her over troubled times,
shield her heart from harmful things

But sit her down and talk of life,
the reasons why we’re here
Clarity and genius come to light,
as if an angel does appear

Touched; by something wonderful,
a calming sense of life 
That washes all her pain away,
and rinses her inner strife

So when you see her dancing,
when you see her heart so free
Join in dance and happiness,
she may share what she sees