I emphasised what
they reduced me to
*
in your eyes
my body wasn’t whole
*
in your eyes
a broken body
can be trespassed against
*
again
and again
*
maybe you haven’t been the origin
but that doesn’t eradicate your traces
*
truth is a thing that I found in the dirt
within your body
truth is a thing that cut me
truth is a body that opens up
a body that opens its holes
teeth out
holes
openings
gaping
tongue in my face
*
my father believed his own lies
and I raised myself against them
*
taking me down his road
and introducing his demons to me
*
they are yours now, he said
*
I grew old in the house of insanity and recoil
*
your homecomings have always been a threat
*
I made my body do things
that I didn’t want to do
*
and you told me it wouldn’t leave a scar
Croque-Melpomene 