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my skin isn't enough
November 10, 2014
it isn't enough of a sacrifice
that i must cover it with
denim,
or cover it with
makeup.
criss-cross patterns marre
what once
had been pure.
imprints of unwanted hands
tracing hipbones,
the touch memory
of a little girl screaming
against horrors she was too
young
to know.
patterns like trellis map pain
- like roadways -
to a broken heart
and an unhealed soul.
it seems that skin had
not been enough,
for my light had to be
tarnished so early,
along with too many things
that are best left
unsaid.
© Anonymous
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This piece was written as a theraputic approach to what has happened to me in my past, and as something for me to have survived and overcame, as something that is now such a part of me. I hope that people will realize how desperate people - women or men - caught in that situation can feel, and how legal, emotional, spiritual, and physical battes help overcome the darkness in our pasts.