The Weight She Fell Under - Parenthetical Girls

When they pulled you from the tracks

Your body splayed and split

Your chest flushed bright

As it was in life

When they pulled you from the tracks

Mindful of your separate halves

Your face relaxed

Lying flat upon your back

Your body blushed beneath such crushing weight

Stolen in your awkward stage

That you never would escape

The same stain that decorates your chest and face

With a scarlet mark of shame

When you’d stutter out of place

And when they pulled you from the tracks

Your eyes gone milky white

Strangely alive

Strange

This would come at the same age

That your mother took his name

And labor pains

Would collapse her fragile frame

The city lights reflected off the bay

From the streets where you were raised

And taught your place

By those stifling younger days

Now that’s all been washed away

With the color from your face

Tracks traced in paint

From a woman raised to wait

And when they pulled you from the tracks

Your body splayed and split

Your chest flushed bright

As it was in life

When they pulled you from the tracks

Mindful of your separate halves

Your face relaxed

Lying flat upon your back