That part of you goes all the way down
And it spreads all the way through
And it is private and thus difficult to talk out
And it is something you share with almost no one and thus hard to work out
For all these reasons, it is really cruel and wrong to hurt someone here, in this way.
They cannot escape it, and often they live their whole lives without being able to address it, so it turns gangrene and what should be beautiful and sweet and cuddly is dark and broken and shameful and so lonely, so uncuddled, so lonely all the way down and all through.

Author: BW
Editor: AW
Copyright: AMW