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How can i welcome you child? In this atmosphere where i feel unwelcome In a strange bed Surrounded by unfamiliar, hostile faces The face i know and love shoved aside The other family faces sit and wait outside Not allowed to witness your arrival I feel cut off - dismembered Harsh white walls and overhead light, glaring, blazing at us. Am i the enemy - the dirt - the problem to be solved - disolved? Cold hard steel robs me of my warmth. Little wonder I want my pain to cease, my labour to stop. You to remain safe within Bound to this table we can't escape the brutal prodding; The fierce gaze of those who would deliver you from me They bear down on me hoping to force me to expel you. I become tense when threatened with the knife, Ensuring it will be wielded upon me; Why can't they help me relax instead of paralyzing me with fear? Massage and soothe tense muscles Instead of cutting through my resistance At last you show yourself - wanting the ordeal to be over. Hoping they will leave us alone. But instead masked bandits wait to take you from me, Deserted, humiliated, wounded to the heart, How can i welcome you child? |
