it isn't about the words 
                   or even the actions
                   it's about watching
                   the tender parts fade

                   red circles spreading
                   like the spider's bite
                    dead at the center
               even the hope of re-growth
                  will be scared
                 a caloused shadow
                    of past events

                     I do not know
              how to view these things
               the uninvited injuries
                    that always
              take me by surprise

              I miss the part of myself
                   that trusted
                  I am too old
              to lose my childhood     
Copyright © Rose Lobel, 2006
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