SKIN

Growing into your skin hurts.

Rips tears peels away old life

Exposing chalky bloodless bone.

Necessary pill to swallow,

Lump left in throat.

Skin shed in a pile snake-like.

Sitting in the corner crouched fetal

Like unborn baby,

Earth unknownst-- believing believing believing.

Eyes set on the stain-glassed image of

What should be.

Never faltering blue eyes.

They spirit you away to a land of fairytales

But glass shatters,

Cinderella no more.
Ravens pluck them out.

Whimsy is dead,

Practicality promenades proudly past.

Lady Godiva

Stripped naked of skin.

Bloody beat broken bent body.

Dressed in rags of insecurity and doubt,

You have no option but to

Dance.

Dance dance dance.

Drag through the dirt fear.

Squash doubt in the mud.

Solid gold hair splinters in sun-light.

You are you.

Mark it proudly, make it so.

You are anew.

Not how you pictured but--

Happy merely alive.  

Your new skin stretches,

Bends over elbows and knobby nicked knees.

Adulthood skin. Worth fighting for.