Grain of Ink

Mine.

And who gave you the right to look and think you own this flesh

No divine or biological bestowal will define my meat but me

As the owner of this body, I have some binding terms

So in the interest of the record, let me re-record them for you

  1. Don’t you touch me with that broken begging mouth.

You fed me lies between my thighs to keep your secrets out

  1. How dare you try to carve your name upon my skin.

You took my words away to stuff your own voice in

  1. I am not the altar to the pain of what you did.

Here is where I rise, and tell the entire truth of it

My body was tilled soil for your roots of shame to seed

My still mouth was not a yes, nor did the quiet mean agreed

You can't name that night "I could tell that it felt good"

Because you

never

understood

You might have stripped my skin and emptied me inside

No matter what else you stole from me, you still can't take this meat

It's MINE.

#poetry