She’s a child who doesn’t mind wandering Who likes to walk around the same path Twenty Thirty Forty times She’s a child who stacks dolls in a row And then leaves them there Bears Babies Breathe in and out Because she panics Things are abnormal Not where she left them In Out In Out But she’s already crying It’s not a big deal It’s not the end of the world But it was And it is And it will be again She’s a child who abandons Starting things anew Just to forget about them Untouched Unloved Unfinished And she moves on She’s a failure A loose screw Mom says how will you survive I don’t know I don’t know Mom, I don’t know She’s no longer a child She lives on her own College Careers Rent struggling to be paid But that child is still there She never left And she is still in control Distractions Ramblings Abandonment I hate her often I wish she were gone So I could take the wheel And steer Row Float Safely to normalcy But what is normalcy without her There is none Without that girl I am No one