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Older Boy
November 20, 2014
Notice me
Look at me, smile at me
Flash me those yellow, rotting teeth
Speak to me
Deceive me, touch me
Grapple at me with your sharp, dirty claws
Scratch me
Bite me, crush me
Suffocate me with the sheer weight of your scaly body
Use me
Bend me, break me
Crumble my bones underneath your pride
Ruin me
Lacerate me, mutilate me
Batter me with your forceful fists
Destroy me
Wound me, shame me
Agonize me with your toxic words
Ruin me
Torture me, mar me
Warp me with your psychological warfare
Confuse me
Consume me
Kill me
Pretend I asked for all of these things
And do it all over again
To me
© Manuel F., Phoenix, AZ
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I wrote this poem to draw attention to the flagrant injustice of domestic violence. The poem is graphic and disturbing, but that's the point. I chose to have the narrator ask for these awful things to show how the defense for domestic violence and abuse, "she asked for it", is just silly. No one truly asks for these things.