Children

Put pillows on the ground,
To protect their feet.

Put them in straight jackets,
To protect their arms.

Put them in a room with no windows
Or doors,
And lock it.
Opened only to slide in healthy vegetables.

No TV
No video games
No bruses
No violence
No one
Nothing
.
.
.
.
Are they safe now?

SCREAM
your frustration to the sky
TEAR
apart everything in sight
*cry
the pain away and
Fade*
into the night............

Speak swiftly,
or speak not at all,
my heart will stay,
either way.

With scars on my thighs
I ask,
**"Why this?"

How doth mine heart sing it so,
Of a love, forever to be known,
By a man and a woman bound to reality,
Yet with each other, escape to fantasy.

How doth mine heart sing it so,
Of laughter and tears that both do flow,
With ups and downs that go round and round,
Only with each other, they are found.

Oh, how doth mine heart sing it so,
That a man hath fixed my heart of woe,
And doth mine heart sing it so,
Because this strong and gentle love is ours to know.

Here I am,
and here I stand,
from the 'in" crowd,
I've been banned.
My names are "weird", and "odd"
but the freaks are the ones who I applaud.

Here I am,
and here I stand,
with make-up that's weird
and clothing unlike your brand.
Loud as my voice may be,
I'm behind a curtain they've created for me.

Here I am,
and here I stand,
with an amazing boyfriend,
who saw who I am.
Hand in hand he lead the way,
and showed me that being myself is okay.

"They would love you...
if only they knew..."
but they won't
for I'm not in their crew.

Here I am,
and here I stand,
behind their curtain,
that's much too grand.
But the curtain is not mine to hold,
for this "curtain" is simply their eyes, I'm told.

Content and happy I'll forever be,
because of Monami,
who allowed me to be...
me.