you shrug
and every time...
The boy in the house with the blue
door buys nail polish at the corner store...
You want me to go out
into the world...
Like for all the time
rain was pouring and I was dry...
I'm caught in the middle of a war...
A war with no correct side...
she was overwhelming,
so you buried her away...
I'd thought of you often,
how gentle your touch...
Years of horrendous abuse,
I was never good enough...
There's something deep inside me
That wants to find a home...
Are you still there?
I did something horrible, and not the...
I'm noble and good
but never enough...
You secretly binge on my flesh
and say my blood is too bitter...