Mistreatment
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It smelled like old graham crackers,
Soggy cinnamon bread crumbs years stale.
It smelled like too hot plastic,
When jungle gyms were pirate ships,
Sharp teeth lurked below.
The layers of tears that I've cried have stung my eyes to that point of where seeing just becomes painful. I don't want to give up. But I'm being forced to give up. Or am I? No, this whole situation is fucking bullshit.
I cannot begin to imagine
What comes within this baggage
Friendship! What a slippy, messy slope?!!
A non-romantic relationship
Where two hearts begin to elope
Rape
Beat
Kill
Four letter words that happen in
Jail
Packed in like sardines in a can
While trying to fix what is wrong with society
Trapped in cages like battered animals
We boast about
You who never cease, Breaking the heart of another
keep taking another piece, as if it wasn't a bother.
night and day goes by, as that child you bully,could very we'll die.
Don’t speak the truth, but don’t be a liar
At least, that’s how Mommy says I should be
She says it’s the only way
To explain my black and blue shoulders and knees
"I like a long-haired, thick red bone", he saysas he yanks her, drags her, and spreads her legs.Her mouth is sewn shut, but her body screams, "more!"because her man on the screen showers her in Gucci and Couture.
Tattered and torn.
Beaten and scorned.
Rejected, neglected,
Abandoned when born.
Surrender and yield;
Potential concealed.
Abused, misused
Wounded, now healed.
Underestimated.
understand me
don't overlook me
yet some people prefer to underestimate me
but i'm over that
she's misunderstood
she wants to be Ms. Understood
but she has really bad relationship issues
I am Frankenstein’s monster—
a tired traveler yearning to break free
from this cage, this lonely overpopulated
world. Here, I stand in a crowded
grocery store listening to people yell and
