☆kids know weeds are plants too☆

You don’t own the sun

Just because you're older

I melt away

In the salty rainbow

Of an abused toddler

It hurts to love 

like this

I am covered 

in chalk and gum and spit

Please dont

Bite the back of my neck

Or yell beads of spit 

onto my face

Throw away the pencil marks

And birthday cards

With the scents and the warmth

And the light

I chased in grass fields 

painted golden and bright

The gravel and bark of trees

The scrathes on my knees

sting so much

When it is you doing this

No patch

No hug

No kiss

Do you do

as you do

because someone did?

Does it feel good

to be a bullied bully

to be a blue beetle

With your body and juice

smached all over 

the warm dry pavement

Between the weeds, sand and insects

Without knowing

Without feeling

And kids know

weeds are plants too

weeds are plants too

We still love and care for them 

We see colour in the bruise 

And we know 

We know the rules

You don’t own the sun

Just because you're colder

I melt away

In the salty ocean

Of someone never chosen