Baby heart

It’s hard to swallow when you’ve got

Ten thousand words stuck in your throat

It’s worse than choking with fish bones

Because the things that you need to tell him

Are more difficult to the human heart

Than sharp scratches to the skin.

I wish I were a mermaid, really

This way I wouldn’t be judged for my lack of speech

And my insane pleasure of laying hours under water

There is nothing that can calm me more

Except for a warm embrace, and you rocking me at night

When did we lose that?

I feel like a baby when requesting this kind of stuff

But you saw me as a strong baby

And admired me for it.

Others, they don’t. I wish I could find a way out

Of myself, but it is so hard

To look into human eyes and not turn away

Because your mermaid heart

Would flood your face

And scare him away.