Thinvisible

Thinvisible

There was a girl who faded away.
She became so thin and brittle
that she resembled an autumn leaf.

Her mother didn't notice.
She was too busy
smoking Pall Malls.
The angry red tips burning hot.

Her father couldn't see.
He was too busy living in a fantasy.

The girl became a skeleton.
With a heart still beating (but barely).

Years later, when the girl had become a woman.
Her mother said, "I am done with mothering."
Her father said, "What a great childhood you have had!"

The woman took the girl in her arms and said,
"There there.  There there."