Hand-Me-Downs

Hand-Me-Downs

I wear my mother's
stolen clothes
and have since
I was young
and didn't realize
when she showed
me the exotic outfit
that it wasn't
mine to have
it made me more like her
but didn't fit
though it seemed
to make me stronger
draped around me
like her arms
her pain as mine
we shared something
I was never meant to see
little girls together
parading in our
mother's frocks
until the fabric
becomes threadbare
and starts to itch
now we choose to discard
the apparel rather than
hand it down again

ltv