Walls So High and So Deep
Raging mad and helpless, small outside, but inside looking through eyes as big as they ever will be. Cheeks flush with embarrassment. Saturated in disparagement. A little boy sits silent, in use of astonishing self-control most grown-ups could never employ. Knowing the hand that beats is also the hand that feeds He swallows a sturdy pride, to save it for later in life. For now he'll just hide. Still steaming and boiling A nuclear explosion, going off deep inside. It baffled those who watched on, how this tiny child carried on constructing the most amazing inner architectural feat. A wall so high and so deep, even now that those two little feet are full-sized, he can't seem to scale it, the man inside now walking on in heavy steps paved with pride.