NOT TO ME

It starts slow,

little tests.

I was just joking.

You can’t take any criticism.

Really, this is about you.

What will you take?

What will you accept?

Give it a couple decades.

You may have thought you would always scream out,

didn’t grow up with it.

That’s not who you are.

Old photos of a little girl grinning back at you,

red patent leather shoes,

always in bathing suits.

So, click your heels Dorothy.