Deep fear I

Perhaps I am indeed afraid

of what love can make of me -

how wide and bare I am laid

if only for one eye to see.

 

Just a little girl scared of mommy

and of what the rest of you might say

if I don't behave and tell them I'm sorry

for just being myself for a day.

 

Afraid of becoming the woman

I deep down know that I am -

who goes out and feels good with a man

who loves her hair colour and whispers her true name.

 

She learned on her own of a law

she wishes not having to break

since apparently her real fatal flaw

is mistaking what is at stake. 

09/02/2025