Sleeping in Bear Clothes

News of your arrival was never mentioned

On the day of my birth

The doctor's carefully thought out tests

could not pick up your scent 

Your vile presence was not yet known 

while my cheeks were red and round

During private school you clung to the shadows

nipping at every school girls waist line

every school teachers too 

No Sin burdened rich man

or sullen headmistress could escape

yet I was still spared

Your grimy, black goo oozed from every hall

Covering cool kids, jocks, nerds and geeks alike

It was then that we met, you drove him into a corner 

and brutalized him repeatedly, for three gruesome years

I shut my mouth, grit my teeth and did 

what people wanted me to do

I made you Laugh. 

And so I was Spared! 

Ladies and gentleman, I was given a box to sit in

I had my very own box, a box of letters, words and thoughts

Of numbers, figures, and salaries

 

But now as the clock strikes twelve

We are all found, alone

locked in and strapped tight

Ripe and tender, ready for the slaughterhouse

And so we were severed 

Made whole again, made exquisite 

leave nothing, take little

and embody the moment