21 December 2015

[Content Warning] Step-children


In the dictionary
under perverse
you'll find
I should hope
a photograph:
a photograph
of the Universe.

How else
to explain
how people fall
in love
and merge their lives
a messy, messy process
akin to
merging DNA,
and far less
fun,
far less
constructive.

Still, I s'pose
there are genetic
defects,
and step children
can be a messy, messy
war,
with past comforts
long passed
their best-by date,
challenged and even
rent asunder,
in a painful,
painful birth
of adult
torn from womb
of childhood's comforts
by adult
unrestrained
by past agreements
and coercions.


Copyright © Kayleen White, 2012 I undertake these writings – and the sharing of them – for the sake of my self expression. I am under no particular illusions as to their literary merit, and ask only that any readers do not have any undue expectations. If you consider me wrong, then publish me – with full credit, of course :)