Censorship

In kindergarten when we fell

They would bandage the knee

Instead of letting it bleed

And we forgot how to feel,

In later years when

Damaged by first loves

They told us not to express

Put a bandage over our hearts

And we forgot how to care,

When telling our first dirty joke

And not understanding the punchline

Or saying "fuck" for the first time

Out of frustration for the right words

They put a bandage on our tongue

And we forgot how to speak,

Then upon seeing our first R rated movie

Or gazing upon the knob of Michaelangelo's David

Erected in marble but not yet erect

They put bandages over our eyes

And we forgot how to see,

So that when we graduated into

That terrifying world

We found ourselves failing

Because we were so well protected