Safety In Pins

Safety in pins Her mother bestows her with a pillow Blooming roses in azure and red embellished with silken threads Edged with a A crystalline river Making Anuket shiver "Just stick a pin in it whenever you worry!" she says casually. A worry pillow! In a cheerful facade How contradictory Rose Thinks Still better than Biting her tongue. She sticks the first pin in it. The first flaw on the pillow's Beautiful Facade. She pricks the pillow with a black safety pin When she dreams of Fire eating dragons She sticks another when her milk tooth becomes wobbly And another dent on lovely facade of the pillow She sticks another in a bold colour when kissing a boy She sticks an orange one in securing her first job. Attached to a signed contract She sticks an organza one at her wedding day attached to a butterfly confetti. At her baby girl's birth She sticks a pink one attached to a ribbon The faded worry pillow becomes her life story Every safety pin a dot for the map of her life.