Hard to Take Taking
John G. Young, M.D.
What she wanted from me
was all I had
yet in giving to her
she liked it not.
I didn't, you will note,
shove it down her throat,
yet she took from me
ambivalently.
I gave by the spoonful;
she still was not grateful.
There was something not freeing
with a surrogate mother,
Yes, something distasteful
in being fed by another.