Content warning: Self-harm
Battle with your gap-toothed grin
Your rosy cheeks
Your unkempt hair
Battle with your unbroken heart
Your open creativity and
Dreams of world peace
Battle with your personality
Cut deep into it and
Make it shrink
Battle with the pep in your step
Your sing songy voice
The glitter in your eyes
Battle with how safe you felt
In your mother’s arms
In your overalls
Make yourself wail
Then make yourself shush
Let it settle
And wrap it up
Trace your scars
With the tip of your pen
Make them bleed
entertain someone else