March 25

How?

How does one make it stop?

How do you keep them from hurting you?

I run till I drop

But they keep getting through

You get lulled into a false sense of security

you think you are safe

you let go of your purity

and find that it only chafes

I am battered

I am betrayed

get in line

only to be dismayed.

Won’t you let me go?

can’t I be free?

am I allowed to say no?

or am I succor for your greed?

Will you or any man ever admit his faults?

can I believe you when you speak?

I cannot jump all the vaults

only to come to the end and be meek?

Don’t you dare love me you traitor

You are not allowed to speak

I am cut as if by an abattoir

and I begin red blood to leak

You are not allowed my succor

you are not given my feast

you are cast adrift without pucker

and lacking courage of the very least

Posted March 25, 2020 by Charlotte Von Wolfle Greer in category "All of Charlotte's Poetry", "Hurting When I Write

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