poem: meliena decuypere

Tick-tock
Says my biological clock

Refrain
Says my brain

Let’s go
I hear in utero

Rewind
Asks my mind

Buy me
Yells a baby onesie

Too soon
Sounds a familiar tune


Strange, how my body
And my head
Don’t rhyme.

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about the writer: meliena decuypere

Meliena is a thirty-year old Belgian/American with her homebase in Boston, Mass. She currently works in hospitality and yearns for the time when she can go explore again with her dog and boyfriend. The best advice she ever got was to say yes as much as possible, and she embraces every opportunity she gets because of it!