Roses
Did you fall down the rabbit hole?
Did you paint the roses red?
Did you finally make love to
the monster in your bed?
Did you scrape your nails on the board?
Did you you make it scream?
Did you wake up in the morning
loving your bad dream?
Do you dance to your suffering?
Do you sing to your pain?
Do you inject yourself with mercury
just to keep your soul sane?
Did you bite the snake?
And then eat the apple in spite?
Does the darkness sit inside you
until both are freed at night?
This poem is about:
Me
My family
Our world