Poem: I Refuse to be Silent (Trigger Warning)
Day 5
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My heart has been hung
like those in Salem,
my beauty turned into
a mockery & my love
put on trial for bewitchery.
I've been baked in cakes,
weighed like a bag
of fruit, rolled
with a rolling pin
to squeeze out
all my impurities
once for you.
Thrown off of cliffs,
been judged for my love,
hated for my thoughts,
& have once been guilt tripped
to stay in love by family
I thought once loved me.
So, when I ask you if you love me,
do not take offense or take it to
your grave. My ghosts already haunt
me, when I cry myself to sleep
because my demons have always lived with me.
Don't get mad when
I accuse you of my doubts & my fears;
its not your fault that my innocence
didn't stay innocent for long.
Cause my body has been used for portraits,
tied in binds of fear because of beer,
cause sometimes sober thoughts
have been the rotten candy that has
affected my heart.
I still can't get over how my body
used to get hit by my parents,
how their actions still affect me,
or why my silence is
still is there protector.
I regret not calling out on my parents names.
Maybe I would be normal,
my body would have not turned
bitter, & the slightest tone of someone's
voice wouldn't scare me.
Or the slightest touch of someone's
tiny push, grabbing me or pulling
me, still wouldn't frighten me.
Abuse has been my father,
yelling has been my mother,
cheating, lying, manipulation,
being used for sex;
& self-harm have been the names
of my exes.
The dark still scares me,
bedrooms still cause me anxiety,
my old house has rooms;
I can never step back into.
My old house has become
a vault of memories,
tombstones of people,
& junkyards of buried secrets.
My dorm's kitchen is a bad memory,
the old apartment has things in it,
I still cannot swallow, burn,
or let go.
There are somethings a mother cannot know.
The dorms bathroom is still
covered in my blood, the drain
knows my story, my old cellphone
can still recite, "Your fine! Why can't
you be fucking okay? You're fucking okay!"
So, can't you see; this is still why;
I still get scared when
people yell or push me away,
not because of you, your love,
or the kindess in your hands.
The slighest change in your tone,
causes my anxiety to rush,
the touch of people hands,
makes my sketelon scream,
my bones break, & my spirit
try to escape.
My scars are invisible,
my nightmares are embedded
in my skin, I still cry in my sleep
for the things my father has
done to me.
I still talk to my mother like
she never hurt me, I still tried
to make amends with an ex
that made feel psychotic,
to rip the staples out of my veins,
& contemplate suicide.
Because of him I cut my wrists
more in those past wasted nine months,
that I have ever done, living these 20 years
in this soulless body.
I was walking on eggshells
everyday, made to feel like
a basket case & a support
dog only there for his comfort.
Made to feel alone,
isolated from friends,
give all my attention
to fill his insecurities, use
my bipolar as accuse for every
fight & use his own jokes to
accuse me of flirting with an other.
The way sex turned
me into a lifeless doll,
I avoided it for 4 months
till the end but wandering
hands are the devil's toys
& his friends.
I'm still afraid of sex because of him,
not just because of him,
I hated my body for months,
& once a year before that.
I wasn't raped, instead my body
was touched in ways that made it disgusting
to live in.
Disgusting for my own hands to touch,
I wanted to rip my bipolar from my brain,
drown it with bullets, take a shotgun
to the head & drown it hennessy
to cover it in burgundy paint.
He ruined me, again I was ruined,
hands explored my body to put me in the mood,
my mouth said no, but my body said yes.
My mouth expressed no more than once,
but rape did not happen. Sex did not happen.
Sexual coherence should have not have grown from
the weeds of his hands with alcohol of on his
breath at night & sober horniness on a sunlit
morning.
I still ask myself is this my skin or someone elses?
Does this body belong to me?
My temple felt violated,
my treasure chest wrapped
in caution tape.
Cut open like an apple,
to destroy all my seeds,
skinned alive; so you
could show me I was
still gorgous underneath
all the crust of a beautiful
apple pie; you wouldn't eat.
So am I truly beautiful? Or is it a lie that lives on my now boyfriend's tongue?
I love my boyfriend,
who is at my side now
but loving is a war with myself.
Looking in mirrors,
learning to love my smile,
falling in love with my
body, accepting my mind,
& tasting my sweet lips,
to learn to love them
like you do.
I've called myself beautiful
because of you, stopped
painting my face with clay everyday,
jumped out of my shell
& learning to love myself.
Praying to a God,
I never believed in,
but the fears never
stop & the doubts
live in my skin.
The hate makes
a place in my bed,
rests beside me,
drinks my water
because your love
for me; is something I'm
trying to believe in.
Its not simple to believe
someone is in love with me,
loyalt is to far-inbetween
to believe I am your only Queen,
your only princess because
I've never been the only one.
I've slandered my heart
on concrete surfaces that
replaced my love, fell
into darkness & loved people
that never loved me.
I thank God everyday I met
the person I'm with now,
because I've once been
around people whose's
minds were drunk but
their hearts once spoke
sober thoughts.
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