Children of God

I am a child of God
I was born in sin
with flowers in my hair and a ravens glare
I walked my own path
standing shaky

Music in my head
playing tunes of sin
with unmatched socks
and a poet's shirt
I danced my way

singing songs of freedom
fighting for everyone's rights but my own
I got saved
I sing for the people
I love
I sing for the people
I fight for
I sing for my rainbow children
I sing for my family and friends
I sing for strangers
I sing for my enemies
I sing love for everyone

Angry people shouting
I walked away
hair flowing wild
I cut it all away, I gapped it up
I was mad
I am a warrior who doesn't need
hair

My weapon is love
My armor is peace
My Word is truth
My shield is salvation
With dignity, I rise
And on The Word, I stand
victorious.




By: Bernice Bowling

My Darth Vader Dream

I dreamed I was trying to rescue someone who had been hit by something,
I think it was either Luke Skywalker or Hon Solo and We were hiding from
Darth Vader had a tendency to be nice but then he would show his evil side.  
Yoda was there in the background in spirit guiding us.
Someone came who had healing powers and healed Luke or Hon,
whichever one it was, and I remember thinking I wish I had healing
powers, but when I woke up something spoke to my heart and
said I was the one with healing powers. But in the dream after
Hon or Luke got healed the other one went for help and I stayed behind
to watch over the injured person and Darth Vader came with a prize
that we needed and I accepted it and I protected us before he could do
anything bad, but he was still trying to get in and we kept hiding and Luke told
us not to let Darth Vader in. We had been going around in a very important maze
of sorts and we found this hidden cave where we stayed in until we could heal and
make our escape.

Peppermint Snow and The Cabbage Patch Doll Killers.

I was sitting in the store minding my own business when all of a sudden out of nowhere this kid comes and grabs the box that I was sitting in and throws it in a buggy with the biggest smile on her face. She looked so excited and so was I because this meant I was going to be adopted and loved. After we got home she played with me and I felt so loved but after a few days, she came into the playroom where all the other dolls and I were sitting and she got me down and cut some of my hair off. I was so hurt and upset. How could she do this to me? I looked terrible now, and I began to cry, but then the little girl hugged me and told me how pretty I was with my new haircut. So I didn't feel so bad, and for years afterward, I felt loved.

Then years later my kid had grown up and forgotten all about me and the rest of the toys, and we were all thrown in a box together and put in a dusty old attic. It was really scary in there and I was afraid but the other toys kept me company so it wasn't so bad. but then one day her mom comes in and takes my picture and puts it on some website called eBay, and before I knew it I was being shipped off in the mail somewhere and ended up at some strange house and as soon as they got me out of the box they ripped my head off my body and through my body in the washing machine. I was terrified. I didn't know what was going to happen next. I thought I must be at some kind of doll killer's house.

Before I could think another thought The dark-headed lady grabbed my head and took a razor and cut all my hair off until I was bald. This was worse than ever before. I was being tortured, and I heard them talking about sending me off and having holes drilled in my head and needles stuck in it filled with yarn. So I asked another toy to help me make a distress call and they helped me make a video asking for help but help never came and I was shipped off.

Once I got there this woman took me out of the box I was in and sat me aside for a bit and I watched her drill holes in dolls' heads in terror. I knew that was going to be my fate. It was all over. I was going to Cabbage Patch Doll Heaven. I began to cry. Then it was my turn she drilled those holes and took a needle with black yarn in it and went to work on my head. I just knew any minute I would be dead, but then when she got done. I had a full head of black hair, but still nobody.

That's when she stuck me back in a box and shipped me back to the place that shaved all my hair off. Once I got there they gave my body back to me. I was so happy, but I still never had any clothes. I was naked as a jaybird. That's when I watched as the woman took her sewing box out and began to sew. She made a small pair of pants out of a newborn's old leggings and made a small denim jacket with patches on it and then she gave them to me along with a shirt from Build A Bear and some Cabbage Patch shoes. I was so happy, and she gave me a new name. She names me Peppermint Snow. I had a new home and a new look and I was loved once again. Never will I have to be afraid anymore. I thought something horrible was happening to me and all along I was being restored to a better version of myself than ever before thanks to my new mommy.