Your arms wrapped around me
As I sat on your floor
You sat in my lap
Guarded me from an open door
The door in my thoughts
The door in my memories
The door from my childhood
That forever remained banging
As my back pushed against it
Trying desperately to keep it shut
Keep myself from what’s behind it
But months later back there once more
When it knocked again
You got up and opened the door
You let it all in
The pain, the fear, the trauma
Making me feel small once more
You walked away from me
Not a care in the world
A fragment of the man I knew
But a full fruit of the person I never did