Your hands brand my skin, torches and hot wax, sealing off
My body, burying my soul inside. You promised me love in
The form of a kiss and you robbed me of hope as your arm
Oppressed my throat. You looked at me and knew that nobody
Would ever look for me. That I had been born and nobody ever cared.
That I felt so left alone, I’d march voluntarily into your exploitative swamplands.
You tore my soul away from my body, decontextualised me.
Baptised me with new names and burned me into nocturnal rhythms.
You let them shred me to pieces and I would disappear beneath my skin.
I sang my own requiem as they exhaled on my face and I detected decay.
Bringing me closer to my own and they made me part of themselves and
What becomes distorted in their brains and purged themselves of me and
I would still remain shackled, never become a woman, always a girl never allowed to grow.
“Zorka Wearing a Blue Blouse, with Green Casket” by József Rippl-Rónai (1861-1927)
Like this:
Like Loading...
Related
Published by Croque-Melpomene
My name is Laura Gentile. I’m of German-Italian descent and I speak five languages such as English, German, French, Italian, Luxembourgish and I’m currently learning Romanian.
I hold a Master of Arts Degree in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Dissertation: The Decadent in Love with his Psychopomp: Thomas Mann's 'Death in Venice' and Adrian Lyne's 'Lolita') and a Master of Letters by Research in English Literature, Film and Visual Culture (Thesis: Romanticising Decadence and Aestheticising Death: Women as Projection Bodies and Mimetic Identities in Zola’s 'Thérèse Raquin', Schnitzler’s 'Dream Story', Süskind’s 'Perfume: The Story of a Murderer' and Eugenides’ 'The Virgin Suicides').
My debut novel, 'Within Paravent Walls', will be published by WiDo Publishing / E. L. Marker.
I am the creator of "Croque-Melpomene: Femalecentric Poetry" and I have a YouTube channel carrying the same name.
Find me here:
YouTube: Croque-Melpomene
Twitter: lauragentile13
Pinterest: lauragentile12
Instagram: croque_melpomene12
Goodreads: Laura Gentile
LinkedIn: Laura Gentile
Contact Email Address: croquemelpomene@gmail.com
View all posts by Croque-Melpomene
