Repressed memories are genies bottled up,

they shroom colossal when unplugged.

~

I've never made a habit

of practising cruelty

but the child did construct

a hierarchy of needs.

My cats required protein,

grasshoppers were plentiful,

so I quashed all quibbles,

hunted to provide.

~

I refused to let reel

soft pink bellies, snow dome eyes

and endearing chins;

I denied the intrigue

of finger-mouths fidgeting,

of intelligent antennae

and jovial, high springs;

I rejected parallels, personification,

identification, live and let live

and forced myself

into zombiedom, to think

nothing beyond: meat, meat, meat.

~

Repressed memories are atoms riven;

harmful is snow that remains un-driven.