Bad Bad Girl

Bad Bad Girl

On a funny world I shall soon descend

Planet Earth

I ought to be thrilled with excitement, but I am scared

I hear of a place where bad trees bear evil fruits

I fear that my mommy and daddy won’t love me

If I am bad girl

My mommy will hold my feeble head into the water

Watching me as I struggle to breathe

Until I stop waving my arms

Thrown into the fast flowing river and bruised by rocks

My death row 

I hear of a place where rotten turf grows witless grass

I fear that my mommy and daddy won’t love me

If I am a bad girl

I will have no rights to chase the dragonflies in my dreams

Back breaking labour for being the only girl

My brothers will chew hay as they watch me slave

I hear of a place where malignant soil produces demented crops

I fear that my mommy and daddy won’t love me

If I am bad girl

My daddy will sell my prepubescent body to be adorned into a pretty bride

With terror and shame I’ll glance at the tall stranger standing by my side

Stripped of knowledge and education 

Immerse in perverted ejaculations 

I wish that my mommy and daddy will love me

Because I am a good girl.   

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

god, makes you want to just climb back into the womb...
always wondered what is going through the mind of an infant being born.
you capture all of the trepidation perfectly...even in its birth a baby loses optimism---imagine
what life will do...