Kryptonite

This love scares me
Almost to the point that I can’t enjoy it…
Almost to the point that I want to stop it;
But I can’t. I couldn’t. I won’t.

It’s shocking that it could even be;
That it could even exist
How is my heart still intact?
How can it be stretched like this?

My whole world… your little face…
Your little smiles… your little hands

I laugh to think of teenage me
Thinking I knew it all
Believing I was invincible

Oh if I could tell her what’s to come!
She wouldn’t believe me anyway…
Naive girl, you’re not invincible.

The greatest love you’ve ever known,
You’ve ever felt, you’ve ever trusted
It’s true kryptonite
All your vulnerability, all your strength
All in this piece of you, smiling up at you

You’re focused on your clothes, your friends, your grades
It’s all for naught
You’d die for this, you’d kill for this
There is nothing greater,
Nothing stronger,
Nothing more all-consuming,
Than a mothers love.

T
© Oct 2013