A Spoonful of Sugar

The girl wreathes

the perimeter of her mattress

in salt

that has

fallen

like meteors from her stormy eyes.

Surely,

this ritual

will keep the nightmares away.

But her tears

lack resilience.

lack the necessary sting

of healing

as brine enters wound;

instead,

her tears

are broken compositions

of fragility and sugar--

a spoonful

helps the medicine go down

but cannot antidote

the parasitic demons

hosted by the traumas of her past.

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