Nothing to fear

by Yakari Gabriel   Oct 25, 2011


Astonished by
your hypocrisy,
I compose this piece
tonight...

how pathetic you are
sometimes,
this act you've been
putting on lately
is making me sick.

you shudder at the
thought of me,
entwined within
the thighs of a man
who won't put a ring
on my finger..

and how silly it is,
the way you don't
want me to leave the house
nor sleep anywhere else..

---

quit this job,
you're not getting paid
for it..

no one is going to rape me,
nor put drugs in my drink..
I won't end up pregnant
by some loser..

I won't use
fancy metaphors
to sugarcoat
what we both know..

you kept me glued
to reality,
I never got the chance
to be naive..

you were the one that
beat and bruised my
childhood out of me..

no one is going
to steal my innocence,
no stranger will break me
nor leave me jumbled
for the rest of my life..

you already did..

Mother.

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  • 12 years ago

    by Decayed

    Yaki... what empowering ways you master to move your readers.. I love it.

  • 12 years ago

    by Hellon

    There was a lot of emotion put into this verse I can tell. How very sad that you feel this way and I wonder if your mother has read this piece? I have a daughter myself and, although it is very hard to do...I realised that the only way for her to learn about life was to make her own mistakes. It was hard to stand back but...it was the only way.

    Maybe, if you haven't already done so...show this to your mother, she may not even be aware of your feelings.

  • 12 years ago

    by HOLLY ARMER

    Wow! I've read this numerous times now and am just floored by the raw emotion beautifully cases within this canvas of words!

    "you were the one that
    beat and bruised my
    childhood out of me.."

    Brutal honesty that most would be unable to face even in poetic form.
    I feel kinda bad saying great piece or good write because I feel like I'm applauding your pain.
    So I'll just say, you have a flawless way with words!
    Keep it up!

  • 12 years ago

    by Britt

    I was reading along thinking how great of a poem this was and how much feeling I could tell you put into it, the emotion.. oh god the emotion. But then I got to the end

    "no one is going
    to steal my innocence,
    no stranger will break me
    nor leave me jumbled
    for the rest of my life..

    you already did.."

    and I burst into tears, right here at my desk. How heartbreaking, Yaki.

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