wildflower Hold me till the morning “I am yours” (in this room) I am fragile, so very easy Easy when your hips touch mine Shoot the sparrows, act like they’re my eyes I’m deserving, I swear to God Please, won’t you look at me? I need you Please don’t kill me, cut my body in two I know you’re with the preacher on Sundays now She was mine in moonlit sheets I was only good enough when it was convenient And a homeless dog, sitting when you called But I’m still a child, befriending my storybooks I don’t love you I think I hate you I know you hate me I will always Intake your air, live in your lungs Lower the stakes in your heart But I won’t stay, I’ll stay I will wait like you asked You’ll do cocaine, I will bleed the same And your store will sell my book with footnotes absent of your name I hope you love her like she’s your mother