Soiled, my jeans lie in heaps beneath me Blood mars the sheets, and they stain so easily Swollen wrists, knees, and you swelled inside me And it took nine months to destroy my body
I was the dancer My head filled with laughter And then the disaster You came sometime after
I was young then Full of grace then But oh, resentments
L. O. V. E. scratched your name into me F. A. C. E. and its traces of me Curls round your cheeks, Christ, you looked just like me When you took nine months to destroy my body
Now I’m your mother You tore me asunder And years after labor It’s all I remember
I was young then Full of grace then But oh, resentments