Robot Repetition
Updated: Feb 20, 2021
By, Wendiann Alfieri
Repeat
Bleat
We’re all sheep
Cozy up and keeping steady
Till the season is done for
When the heat hits
We shed our comfort blankets
No longer reassured
We bare our own truth and grace
Trying to keep our cool
In a heat- damning place
It is making us sweat
let’s shed that guilt with all the rest
Let them see our vulnerabilities
Pink translucent skin
Where our bones often
Poke and prod
We are tougher than you thought
Seeing us like that, you’ll know
Protection needs room to grow
Every now and then
Fuzzy calmness amidst the dark
Through cold and rain and pain as brutal as rocks
that season subsides
As it gets to be
an inferno outside
The more we defy
The Coddling words and promises
Agreements to never logically be fulfilled
those that held us together
through the bitterness
seasons change and the sun is outside
Our warmth is shaved and we are grateful
People pay for what you shaved
Us sheep don’t give a damn
In time we will travel
To a new land
Where new cares and chances
Make us start all over again
Lies were never ever told
In your blankets you’ll find new folds
You can say what you wish
Sheep like us? Confidence we don’t need to fish for
Our eyes and bleats?
They are our encore