Tell me why
My heart is outside my body
And they can't just see

Tell me how
To make years of absence go away
Help me see.

Show me what Im supposed to do.
Make those years of incarceration erase.
I did it to me.
I did it to us.

A petunia opens.
A hibiscus opens.
But they know everything.
Everything at 14.

It isn't a hard path....this way
Can't you see that?

I want to navigate them from the thorns, the pitfalls, the ravines....
This way, baby.  This way, my love.

Don't follow where I've been.
Don't go there.
Please, please let me protect you.

My heart is outside my body.
And it hurts.
You don't know everything,
Kids at fourteen.