"In the wrong story again and again"

If Counterintuitively It used to be the princess and the pea Was how it was and because it was me Who was if counterintuitively To play the princess in the story when I was to I was very wary then Of anything that might have bothered me For anyone who might have mothered me In the wrong story again and again When mattresses of my mind smothered me Othering myself my self othered me So I came to become another one Became some other someone else begun Someone not very wary anymore Because no princess while meanwhile the pea With no one left then to be wary for Bothered by nothing and mothered by none In its own story becoming to be Was me if counterintuitively +Steven Curtis Lance Copyright MMXI