The tired sprawl of the day settled on her
This was not the life she had envisioned
Something bigger than her was at hand
It was no longer trauma running through her bones
It was no longer her braided hair
Dressing up imbalanced hormones
This was deeper
It gripped the pale
It wiped the eyes
Of light
in the darkness
There was no rest
Before me the road still long and mared
Mother I'm sinking deeper
Into despair
I don't know how to hold on
Again
Another time
He took everything
I gave it all away
I am so thin
I am always so hungry
I absorb the trauma
In the bedsheets like a mother before me and a mother yet to come
The hunger unsatisfied
Unwilling to
Quiet
Like all things in the night
So alone