Drip Drop

She stood there in the rain

Drops dripping down her full lips

She wondered why she came

But continued moving forward

Her eyes set in a glaze

Dark, but not in a mysterious way

They were kind

She was too

But where she was headed was full gloom

She had slow and gentle steps

But her hands were tense with worry

Will they still love her?

Or leave her there to bury?

She is now at home

Looking through the glass

Raindrops

Drip

Drip

All the way to her past

She's waited for this moment since she was a mere thought

But her mother

Believes these things are self-taught

She doesn't want to be a burden

There's more than rain on her cheeks

She has not learned this

It's simply who she is to be

She sees her mother in the window now

Just yesterday she was saying of how proud

One step closer

Mother out of view

Her black hair sticking to her face

As she holds her breath and turns blue

Hand on the doorknob

She moves it ever so slightly

"Honey?"

"Yes Mum?" she says so politely

"Where have you been?"

"Finding myself"

"Pardon me?" she says as her brows furrow tightly

"Mum, will you love me no matter what?"

She rests her hand on the table

So conveniently placed

Holding herself

Inspiring the disgrace

"Yes of course darling, why what's the matter?"

The girl stares at her Mother

Her teeth begin to chatter

"I love her"

She says at last

The demons are gone

She is free

She is out

Her mother has no expression

No words

No sense of doubt

The girl can't tell what's in her head

"Say something"

She says as she reaches down

Not a sign

She begins to pull the drawer out

"Mummy please"

The tears are streaming now

"Go to hell"

She said it

No going back to tell

Hand on it

Ready to go love herself alone

-Bang-

Her brains were completely blown

Yet her heart keeps beating with the raindrops

Drip

Drop

Drip

Drop

Stop.