Ja'Taun

17

I sometimes wish I were a teddy bear. Not a Winnie the pooh or care bear, but I wish I was a brand less teddy bear. That knew, that really knows what love is. That you would pass down to your kids and give them a tale, saying this is what kept me safe at night. I wish that I was that plaything that you gave superpowers, you would tell your parents I flew to distance galaxy, and battle the oppression of bedtime. I want to be that part of your childhood you always keep with you, the part that if you lost you would cry a river to me til I floated back into your arms. I wish I was that protector that shielded you from harm and drunk fist. I'll let you cover your eyes from the nightmares that manifest themselves in the shape of your father. Cover your ears from the sounds that wake like morning. I let you rest your weary head on my soft fuzzy skin and dream of better tomorrows. I wish I was that teddy bear you keep in your attic locked up with a childhood when the adults rules are to much to bare. Let me bare it with you. And squeeze me when tears break through your eyelids like the floodgates opened to soon. I sometimes wish I was a teddy bear, wrapped in your arms only love could grasp, and I wish your gasp and signs for: was when you wanted to find the I love you, the I miss you in my orbit. I sometimes wish I were a teddy bear.