Dahlia

You'd gamble everything, my sister says, anything for a tiny waist, around your bones, do you ever retain, the time we spent alone, but you shied away, chased lovers like the rain, snuffled at break of day, going out as you came in, couldn't see another way, smoking your Marlboro thins, maybe when you moaned, danced in sunlight sashayed, never needed to atone, can't you feel the rage, when us little ones groaned, not for us mother's praise, out there on our own.