when the need overwhelms your capacity to act
a time for four walls, a castle all your own
a cardboard box under a blanket
within the voices that tell you go hide
the memory of the womb you foetal curl up
******* your thumb eating till it hurts
staying out of sight to save your mind
your body your drawbridge pulled tight
walking the battlement of revenge
its a heartache kid
something you slowly learn to live with.