Relationships
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Allowances
The second question, if they stick around to ask it, will be, “is it painful?”… Continue reading
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Denial
This body never was mine. So the things you taught it weren’t, either… Continue reading
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Restraint
You were safe. Your weapons neatly stowed in the pockets of your strength and your fragility: only there for self-defense, and only used when there was no hope of escape… Continue reading
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Safety
The trouble with nets, is that you get caught in them… Continue reading
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Gaze
You looked at me, one day, and you told me, “you can’t even look yourself in the eye”. And you stood up behind me, and moved me, like some kind of poseable mannequin, pushing me closer to the old mirror… Continue reading
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No Hesitation*
Content Note: this poem references death by suicide. Please proceed with as much care as you need. <3 Continue reading
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Difference
When she’s nice to me, it feels like entrapment. I need to watch what I say. Because it may be used as evidence against me. Against my belief that I am innocent. And there is nothing I can say that won’t incriminate me, that would Continue reading
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Stay
By making it impossible to do so, they nurtured my tendency to imagine escape. It’s become such a part of me that longing to be elsewhere, to just… go, is automatic, echolalic. It’ll waken if I cross over railways. Or when I stare out to sea. And it will linger. Whispering, because it found some part… Continue reading
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Afterwards*
Content Note: Whilst the focus of this poem is on the power balance in relationships, it does talk about sexual assault. Please proceed with as much care as you need. <3 … Continue reading
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Ghosts
They always seem to feel so judged by me. And yet compassion for them has always been what saved me. Saved me from their rages. From their tongues. And their hands. Because how else could I have survived it all, but to imagine that they too must be carrying some great, deep torment; some ghost in… Continue reading
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