Poetry 17/18?

Me:
Remember childhood
excuses to stay home:
little abdomen that would never ache,
But schools that felt like jails could
make our hearts break?

Remember when you grew up
Those excuses to stay away
Could be bought for friends
And lovers who decided not to
Stay?

I wonder where I am
In that child or in that man
I wonder if i am safe inhabiting
None.



Her:
Remember childhood
excuses to stay home:
little abdomen that would never ache,
But schools that felt like jails could
make our hearts break?

Remember when you grew up
Those excuses to stay away
Could be bought for friends
And lovers who decided not to
Stay?

I wonder where I am
In that child or in that girl
I wonder if i am safe inhabiting
All.

18th August, Jadavpur University
Kolkata
(words forged while
sitting in a nanotech lab
and doing nothing)