Do you remember the first time you felt safe?
Do you remember the way it tasted?

Swallowing the soft thump
Of a heart finally, at rest.

Do you remember the first time you were afraid?
Did you shake and hyperventilate?

Chattering hairs scream
Down the back of a petrified spine.

Do you think you deserved these things?
Were you just born wrong?

When you grew inside the womb,
You knew not what to do.