One Day Counts

1.28.15

The Outside

My mother, she built up a shield around me since birth

To hide me away from the external world

Some sort of tired prevention, hoping it would make me all hers

Only after catching a second long glimpse of my distorted reflection

I realized that I wasn't perfection

I was a common example of defection

And though she did so with affection,

She ruined me

I broke down the barriers

And got my first real exposure of the beautiful,

Horrible,

Tremendous,

Tremble inducing world

In that moment, her red painted claws

Constricted around my pulsing heart

Giving me a terrifying start

And wrapping her way around my organs, inside my stomach, making me groan

Doubling over,

Unsure whether I can even love her

And I pull away, as I'm begged to stay

Feeling the warm rays of radiation on my tender face

I grimace

Thinking of the years she stole

Then, a smile

Thinking of the melodious millennia to come