visual cliff
There s a hole where the space should be
A place where the hold should have
Seen to it that the waters broke a baby
In peacefully
Where the swaddling clothes
Could take hold of the fever
And clear away all of the sweat
But terrors had already set in
In the night
All drunken in sin,
And crying for milk was a din
But for god sake
just don’t waken up Him.
There a caverns
Over which it could have crawled
Had this been an experiment.
Psychologists could have noted the
achievements of motherhood
as she stood up with child all proud in her arms
their eyes knew the ground
was safe.
But no one was watching
And the baby fell.
And it just a good job it got up again
For all these years later it still crying that the cranium
Has taken on too much with this life
and the impact was deafening
its brain is all crushed
It don’t want to think again
But the only way to treat it is
Indifferent,
With personal responsibility
And the careful assistance of suicide.
psychology cured me
whoever said that?
Rachel Bond
Wed 7th Mar 2012 22:35
thanks everyone for comments.
its a common mistake i think to assume everyone grows up in safety. i try to remember when im upset with someone that maybe theyre struggling with something beyond me. this poem is a bit beyond me. i just let the words out it wrote itself from some strange spot in the brain that i just might have been dropped on :)
the visual cliff experiment is a very interesting one to study.