Thorny Love

A sister born.

When i Grow up!

When im four a man will expose himself to me  and laugh at my fear. 

When i grow up i'm going to lie.

When i grow up i'm going to cheat.

When i grow up i'm going to feel ashamed.

When i grow up i'm going to feel guilt.

When i grow up i'm going to fall in love.

When i grow up i'm going to be someones mistress.

When i grow up i'm going to have two sons.

When i grow up i'm going to fall in love with a woman.

When i grow up i'm going to abandon my sons.

When i grow up i'm going to hurt the people i love most.

When i grow up i'm going to have to deal with all the pain i've caused.

Grow up !

Birth

Pushed from your safe warm waters,

through great waves of pain.

I became a castaway,

in a world forgetting by a world already forgot.

Was it really so long ago,

that the first of us

had the courage

to leave that vast watery place

and breathe that first painful breath.

They cut the cord,

and in that instant

I had to learn

how

to

B R E A T H E.........