Free Verse

I am only just learning my name

it didn't grow the way the rest did

from the inside

out

it was placed on my face

and rhymes with

these times and

this place

similarly,

of course my verse is free

I didn't know it had a name

my lyrical vocabulary

didn't grow the way the rest did,

from the outside

in

quickly it is scratched

with canine teeth and the stuff of which

babies are made

and rhymes with

one day, you too,

will fade.