Program the Child
Discard, ignore, belittle, discount.
Keep her locked behind doors.
Shove a bottle and toy in her hand.
Keep her in the dark and confined.
Where she can't tell what's up
What's down, who's around
or feel the touch except to be
changed. Kick the door slam
closed eyes, play Bach or minouet
Clown pictures, roaming cats
Smells of sour milk and sounds
of crying screaming slamming
Ears precious don't bleed hide
Keep covered anxiety levels
cry more can't sleep, facing
walls, detached and cooing
at the warm mama cat called love.
Everything I had given away
taken away, ran away, went away.
All I had disappeared, never appeared
Never manifested, only a dream.
Here for the ride to be yanked
by the hair, bruise in the eyes
flesh forked open with prongs
into caverns of pus and eye filled
with styes, and men who wanted
a piece of the puzzle and teachers
who kicked, screamed and punished
and a society that is spinning out of
control and my running away from
all that tried to pin me down for more
fun and torture and only the hills
only the hills
only the hills
my mama cat
only the hills
you and me.
We'll go.
Keep her locked behind doors.
Shove a bottle and toy in her hand.
Keep her in the dark and confined.
Where she can't tell what's up
What's down, who's around
or feel the touch except to be
changed. Kick the door slam
closed eyes, play Bach or minouet
Clown pictures, roaming cats
Smells of sour milk and sounds
of crying screaming slamming
Ears precious don't bleed hide
Keep covered anxiety levels
cry more can't sleep, facing
walls, detached and cooing
at the warm mama cat called love.
Everything I had given away
taken away, ran away, went away.
All I had disappeared, never appeared
Never manifested, only a dream.
Here for the ride to be yanked
by the hair, bruise in the eyes
flesh forked open with prongs
into caverns of pus and eye filled
with styes, and men who wanted
a piece of the puzzle and teachers
who kicked, screamed and punished
and a society that is spinning out of
control and my running away from
all that tried to pin me down for more
fun and torture and only the hills
only the hills
only the hills
my mama cat
only the hills
you and me.
We'll go.
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