Dancing Sesame

A Narrative Poem by Dana Kaki

 Sesame went out dancing 

And while she was lost prancing 

A witch flew down casting 

“She shall be hit 

She shall be wrecked 

She shall be dent

But she shall be kept”

Sesame ran home eyes red

To her mother and her tent 

in her arms she wept 

And with that she was met

With a sorry glance and a simple peck 

the next day sesame went out chanting 

“She shall be hit 

She shall be wrecked 

She shall be dent 

Down a mountain 

She shall be sent”

A green hue, black hat, pointy shoe,

And a gray cloud that only grew 

The witch now tumbling

But sesame ,like her friends, was hurting 

Still affected by the cursing 

Suffering the consequences of murdering 

what they had called a “pest”

The witch once called a pet