The Dress

When the dress had been torn, it had barely been worn.
(It was only the morn of the day you were born.)

It was only the morn of the day you were born,
and the dress, barely worn, had already been torn.

On the day you were born, when the dress had been torn,
it had barely been worn.
(It was only the morn.)

But the dress? Barely worn? On the day you were born?
On that day in the morn had already been torn.)

(It was only the morn.
It was already torn.
yet the dress had been worn
by the time you were born.)

It was bare on the morn
it was worn once, then torn
and that's where, in that dress
you were already born.