By dean friedman

In the hollow of your arms, snuggled up all safe and warn,
You used to tell me tales of unicorns and kings.
But how could I comprehend all the things you told me then
Of your madness and your struggling?

And my mind would swim in fantasies, like a piece of driftwood in the sea.
I had no touchstone for reality. you were my reality.

Like a dark and unlit room or the far side of the moon,
Your insanity spoke emptiness and fear.
And no matter how I tried, how I questioned and I pried,
I just could not penetrate that thin veneer.

And I know you tried to comfort me, to soothe and reassure me.
But then your strength would always fail and in its place a silken veil.

Like a dried and wrinkled prune, a deflated toy balloon,
I cam home and found you strewn across the floor.
And as they lay you on your bed I heard you say,
If I a dead, how come it just keeps on hurting more and more?

And you left me in the early spring. all they said was, mommys resting.
And how was I to know, so young, it wasnt something I had done?

So please try and understand, I will love you as I can.
I do not blame you; youre not guilty.
But still theres no way to describe the relief I finally found
Upon learning it was you, and not me, that was crazy.

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