Gatekeeper

Gatekeeper

Stop gifting me presents I

Don't want to keep

Wrapped in fragility and

Breaking like

Ceramic

Dolls

That should have been kept

On the shelf

Where my childhood

Was

Disappeared

Now

Like everything that

Used to be.

I am not the gatekeeper

Of memories
Artifacts

Once strewn on the dining room table

Is it not

Typical

That I should be put

in charge 

Of keeping them safe and happy

Like I always was

Only they can't be

So why are you

Asking me

Handing me

Boxes

That I never

Asked for.