Author's Note: Turtle is a little girl in the Bean Trees. She is only about 3 and Taylor Greer, the main character in the book, kind of gets stuck with her. At first she will not speak or anything but soon she starts to talk and act like a normal child. When Taylor gets her she looks like she was beat-up, with bruises everywhere. This is a poem about little Turtle. HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!!!!
An innocent child
Battered and bruised
by the ones she loved.
She faces the world alone
inside her shell
isolating herself from the world.
A complete stranger
takes her under her wing
to show her to trust and to forgive.
It starts as a giggle
a small little noise,
that brightens everyone’s day.
She soon starts to show,
that she is slowly crawling out of her shell,
she is learning to trust the people around her.
She still has moments
where she hides in her shell,
hiding until she knows she is safe.
