Original Sin
Original Sin
by Laura Summerville Reed
I want to be humble
I want to be noble
I want to be generous
and kind
I want to be these
at someone else’s expense
With the ripping pain that set the course
I blindly left behind all I’d ever known
to scream forth from my mother’s womb
Wailing freedom
to the tune of selfishness
I held the hammer of human nature in tiny fists
and nailed my list of demands
to the nursery room door
I want to be made of stone
I want to be a diamond
Uncut
Never required to shimmer and shine
I want to be made of flesh and blood
I don’t want to have to bleed
I want to walk through your doors
with my list of demands
and nail them to your outstretched hands
LSR 2010©