Mirth bubbles …acid foam

I laugh aloud and there is joy

Scratch the surface…you find wounds

Raw, hurting…oozing wounds

Of a thousand years, yet forever new

They will fester, they will stay

Trophies that she earned for me

By having been a fool too long

They will stay, they will fester

So I never forget lessons learned

Does that make me wiser? Ha!

A fool she was, a fool I’ll stay

This fool will live her life as me

Until, one day, we go away