Understand me

A boy ruined my bed

He tore the sheets

A boy ruined my head

I am never at peace

Where did I go?

The mirror lies to me

Skin and body like dough

They bend for me

You took myself from me

You took my heart for free

My body is no longer mine

The mirror a cell

Nobody will love me

Like you

You failed me

You raped me

Of my dignity

Of my femininity

As a girl

You told me I wasn’t enough

You lied and I didn’t call

Your bluff

I was eight

As a woman

You took away my pride

I didn’t get to decide

The value of my privacy

Your insistence of on propriety

I was just blind

A cog in the machine

When I was only sixteen

Understand what you’ve done

Let me pick up the pieces

Before you hurt me again

Help me by leaving

Give me a reason

You’re not a man

Have mercy on me

Like I had on you

Leave me be

Give a man an inch

and he will take a mile