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Dear Time
Dear Time,
Let’s melt under swimming pool skies.
You spill out from under me
seventeen, eighteen, nineteen-
For once,
Let’s stay.
I’ll fish my baby fingers through
towers of green,
And believe the greatest pain in life
Is a scraped knee.
Please.
Lend me a childhood
Before I leave it.
I spent those days in
Irreverent misery.
Bitterly longing
the saturated existence
of popsicle summers.
I prayed for someone to make me lunches.
I prayed to be included in laughter
and then
I didn’t.
I emptied out every feeling.
Listless devotion.
But their stares
Bore shivers of static.
Lucid nightmare,
Spinning dusk to dawn.
I wore calmness in the calamity,
Hiding breathless.
But the silence was drowning.
It bashed the drum of my chest.
“You were just unlucky.”
But why?
What was so wrong with me?
To be stomped into pieces,
Less than nothing.
Everyday wreaked
havoc on my bones.
Every word
diminished my soul.
You caged my eyes
in a haze.
As tears trickled to my toes.
I always thought
my childhood was normal.
No one “remembers”
With teeth lacquered in lie,
But I see you.
Spit flying tantrum.
Kick and scream like the adult you are
While I scrub your plate.
I’m contentedly counting
...
Until our time is up.
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