Under the Bed -Part 2
What they don't know
Is that Momma also told me
How to fight.
So I wait and wait and wait
Play the part
They assigned to me before I was born
Wait till their guard is down
And then
I hurl my words
Curl my fingers
Sharp like razors
Deadly as talons
And I scratch, scratch, scratch,
My way out
Of the darkness and
I stand in the light
Bloody and beaten
But still
Breathing
Christina Pellegrino
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