For Kerri Lynn

By Betty A. Harvey

She bounced

Along with saucy

Smile and gay brown eyes—

And everything went sunny where

She’d been.

An elf,

A Fairy-child,

A sprite—She twinkled, danced,

And blithely scattered stardust on

Our path.

For six

Short years she loved

This life—It loved her back,

Then passed her on, unblemished, Home

Again.