Adolescent Friend

Inside I am shaking,

This is unbearably frightening,

I shrink away every time you say "Do you remember?"

"No" because I don't want to remember, feel, see, or taste anything,

All I draw is frustration,

All I see,

Broken and Sad,

Inside I'm screaming,

All around me I see your distorted world,

Frustration grasps me,

Fills me,

Strangles me,

Resort to tears and screams,

Inside I'm thinking,

Of then and now,

Barbie and Ken,

To Jack and Sally,

Perfect broken,

Broken perfects,

Shaved heads,

Decapitated bodies,

This is what your perfect has become,

Our perfect has become,

Perfect stains my mind,

But flaw fills my veins,

I'm confused,

Who am I?

How much have I aged?

Have you aged at all?

Whatever happened to innocence?