Sensitive subject matter.. please read (and comment) with caution
 

Watch the bridge come falling down

Queer little girl

Always sabotaging herself
Foolish woman
Brings a gun to a knife fight

A DEFENCE MECHANISM
That has no switch to shut down

Once upon a time
There lived a happy child

She was destroyed
By the big bad wolf

A tiny cut on her chin barely a nick just to the
Left
Marring the little soft Freckle
that used to exist

Damning evidence
To match the sourness that fills her mouth
Even after a thousand bottles

Of
Yellow
Listerine

With her back rubbed raw by grit and concrete
Her cunt aching from the humiliation
(not the pain)

So she filled it up

Maybe it never happened
the no was only in her head
And never escaped
Her
Damaged
throat
Perhaps it was a bad dream

A mantra in her head
To a calliope tune

someday
Ashes ashes we all fall down

Powerful words, powerfully wrenching images.

Some are painfully relate-able.

Thank you.
APG

Hugs help most things Clay :) and thank you

Thank you APG-

It feels safe to share this here, i hope i didn't cause you undue pain by doing so

~s

I'm sorry. I am sorry for your pain. I hope you find some comfort.

poetry has a don't judge clause. it is what it is. no guidelines. and i never assume the person who wrote the piece ... lived the piece. we've always heard it said to write what you know. and we should. but we don't have to for it to be moving.

thank you for sharing, sugar. very moving.

macele
 

After reading your post,,,
Kinda makes ya stop and think.

this was really powerful to read and i could relate. thank you for sharing.

Yes, it is safe here to share. And no, you didn't cause pain by your sharing. I am not that young child, or that young girl, or even that young woman anymore. They are all part of the woman I am today, but they do not define me. And I don't have to compartmentalize them away anymore either.

Thank you APG, maybe someday i won't either, I'm crossing my fingers...