... don't spoil her ...

I let you sneak in and sleep on my back
you like to play "lion" and chew on my ear
drowning my earholes
I can smell the candy you weren't suppose to have
in every breath

you nuzzle into my neck
covering the picture of Mami
etched along the breadth of my shoulders
from nape to tailbone

you say you like sleeping on Mami's picture
because you want to be pretty just like her

when you ask me questions i have no answers for
i tell you to go to sleep
you talk too much just like her

kneeling in St Peters
i brought morning roses for you

tell granddad no candy tonight