Respects to Innocence Lost

Dedicated to my soul sister.

We rode the coattails of Gemini,

You and I,

Once upon long ago

Like a salt-and-pepper matched set

Who was the light and who the dark?

I couldn’t tell you

I don’t think it matters

 

Still, I remember the scorch of the summer sun

That year we were

Eleven and spotless,

And it all came

Crashing

Down

 

You grew in a spurt

Sudden;

A push pop someone jammed all the way up

With breasts that swelled tight as two

Water balloons filled to bursting

And I watched with my mosquito-bite chest

 

God, I was so jealous

Stupid;

But there was no denying

The treacherous beestings

That pricked at my eyes, closed

Fast in wordless wishes waiting

For a reversal of roles- stunt double step in

Or bodies metamorphose like

Frogs from a wrapped cocoon

 

If only I’d known

What those breasts brought:

Hungry boys prowling with their greedy mouths

And greedy fingers and their “yeses”

To your “no’s”

 

They leave you cold, don’t they?

Longing, grasping, taking,

Your voice a dirge paying

Homage to innocence:

The warped record spins

“forgive us our sins �"“

“forgive us our �"“