Running

My Momma loves me.
She told me that she would always love me,
and the only thing I had to ever remember is that
my Momma loves me, but I told her "I know you love me momma,
but I still get scared of you sometimes"
and she belted me in the mouth and made my lip split
and she said "Don’t you ever say you are afraid of your Momma
because your Momma can’t ever do no bad things to you
and she will always love you"
and she hit me again, hard,
and my head filled up with noise and I fell down
on the carpet and pretended to be asleep even though I felt
really dizzy and sleepy anyway and when she went away
to the kitchen I got up and ran out the front door and came out
here to these dark woods because
my Momma loves me.