Shut Up Before I Kill You

Grey, mean, and puffy.

Yowl and the air gets stuffy.

I love you eternally.

Forever for every-

thing I have never done wrong.

It's something that's just too long.

Lay by my stomach,

curl into a ball.

I will hold you through it all.

Who am I?

But all you've ever known!

A deepest love has been sown,

and she's still not even mine to own.

Baby Tris! (Washington DC, 2021)