There are no boundaries
      in this world
Only the walls that we create.
      Socially acceptable questions
with socially predictable answers,
    * Stay in the box
             color in the lines
                   follow directions *
There are no boundaries
        in this world

Today I have to crawl back in,
To indulge again in skin, slimy, loose,
Wrinkled saggy skin.
I could lift it in great handfuls,
Feel the muscles, the blood, the everything,
The clammy coldness beneath my fingers.
It makes me sick to the mind;
I want to crawl back out again and run
But there is nothing left to run on, to run to,
Only something uglier than this.
I want to claw it off, the itching in my arms. Scratching,
Scratching at raw flesh, raw muscle,
Exposed veins, all stuck beneath my fingernails.
It is disgusting.
It is inconsequential.
It’s skin.

I'm sad and sentimental
But I feel like taking risks
It's dark behind my eyelids
But what a nice place to exist

If only we could take the back roads
To some long awaited bliss
I would dance beneath the blue sky,
smother you gently, like ocean foam
it's dark behind my eyelids
But what a nice place to call home.

Our secrets harmonize in union
humbling fear crafted by their wake.
oh dear, it's dark behind my eyelids
but what a beautiful escape.

It's our responsibility as parents to teach our children that this world has many belief systems. We must allow our children to learn about their individual spirituality and support them if they decide to choose a system of belief outside our own.

Perhaps by raising our children in the system of belief that we have accepted to guide our individual life paths, without also allowing them to understand that they are free to accept or disagree, leads to the idea that others have denied our beliefs and are wrong for theirs. Especially if we teach our children that our beliefs are more true than others or to disregard others beliefs with disdain, with disgust for their way of life. Especially if we teach our children to fear their spiritually by threat of punishment or damnation. Then not only are others wrong but they now deserve punishment and retribution.

We must be responsible and teach our children to hear openly, to share and receive love, patience, ideas, understanding. We must encourage them to seek and find what makes them whole. We must support their feelings and conviction because that's what makes a happy person, a strong person who has been accepted and will accept others.  We are responsible to teach our children that we all deserve to feel whole but not at the loss of someone else's wholeness.