For A.C.

She says she is having this baby.
She's having it, so shut up.
Better to love something-
something to protect when the tide comes.
and it always does...
Someone to hold tight to the safest center of you-
your back bent into a usefull wall.
Better to have someone than nothing at all.
She says that she
has been there alone too much before.
Furled about nothing
arms too short to hold onto all of herself
her back not a wall against anything
just another fucking back
encasing the spine of one motherless girl
to be pulled in
and drowned.