SAFETY IN PINS

Safety in pins

Her mother bestows her with a pillow

Blooming roses in azure and red

embellished with silken threads

Edged with a 

A crystalline river

Making Anuket shiver

 

"Just stick a pin in it

whenever you worry!"

she says casually.

 

A worry pillow!

In a cheerful facade

How contradictory

Rose Thinks

Still better than

Biting her tongue.

She sticks the first pin.

The first flaw on the pillow's 

Beautiful Facade.

 

She pricks the pillow

with a black safety pin

When she dreams of

Fire eating dragons

 

She sticks another

when her milk tooth becomes wobbly

And another dent on lovely facade 

of the pillow

 

She sticks another

in a bold colour

when kissing a boy

 

She sticks an orange

one in securing 

her first job.

Attached to a signed contract

 

She sticks an organza one

at her wedding attached to 

a butterfly confetti.

 

At her baby girl's birth

She sticks a pink one

attached to a ribbon

 

The  faded worry pillow

becomes her life story

Every safety pin a dot

for the map of her life.