How we need intervention,

to be told how we are feeling,

to feel with another, to feel warmth

from other than a parent, other than

a friend or a sibling, how we need

the levelheaded, how we need them

to be in control of us, how we need

locks, how we need rulings and forced

medication and plush tissues and

straitjackets and padded cells and

words, calming words, and strong

words, and seriousness, and love!