The Weight She Fell Under

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

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

City lights (evolved and off the bay)

From the streets where you were raised

And taught your place

By the stifling younger days

When its all been washed away

With the color from your face

Tracks traced in pain

(From a woman) waste away