men don't cry [Poetry]

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my mother used to tell me,

all you ever did was
cry
when you were a baby

e v e r y d a y.

the endless shrieks
of a tiny creature
robbed my mother
of her sanity
and the creature swallowed it
whole
to compensate
for its lack there of
only then
was it calm.

only a goddess (my mother)
could love
m̶e̶ a monster
wholeheartedly.
unfailingly
~heart of gold // insmniac