Two Pink Lines by Maria Yeager

Fate spins and sways

As a watch does on a chain

A small white stick

Impatience is overwhelming

Life stands on a balance

And on an edge of a cliff

What is to come tips and falls

 

Two pink lines

Stomach surges, heart pounds

Panic rolls and floods through

Lips dry, blood boils

Death to the man who caused this

 

Feelings caper about

One as the leader

Skipping and then falling

Another takes it place

Fear and devastation

Then delight and joy

Finally the want for blood

 

Death to the man who caused this

If only he had controlled himself

If only he held it in

Better to have cut it off than put it into hell

If only I would have known better

If only it wasn’t true

The angel growing within me