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Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
Remember when you touched me
as I said "no"
Remember how you kissed me
with such urgency to take that first bit of innocence
Remember as I pushed you away
and you got mad but zipped your pants anyways
and the only reason I followed was because
you were my ride home.
Remember how you had THE NERVE
to ask me for money
after how you had just touched me
and the only reason I did not slap you
was because you had made that poor little girl
afraid
of everything.

But tell me,
you MUST remember when I came to realize
the man I was with was best friends
with a criminal,
a deciever,
a lousy excuse of a man whom took this
hardly-14 year old girl's first bit off innocence
and discretely- her last

You must remember the denial.
You must remember how you called me a liar,
a fake,
an attention
seeking
*****...
You must remember wishing hatred upon me.

My poor excuse for a man,
but do you not remember
the beginning of a catastrophy
that only you
had the power,
underneath those grimy wandering hands,
to start ?
To the boy - not man - whom took it all from me, and then denied it all to my face.
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
She attempted to burn her skin with the mere faucet
But no matter how warm the water became
the only marks on her skin were those previously left
by the hands of the rusty blade - hidden deep within her nightmares

She lay naked on the shower floor
****** legs and ****** arms spread out in front of her
and only she could make out the difference
between her tears and the running water

This child knew in that moment
that her every second on this earth had been a waste.
If only her mother, or the man that claimed to love her
knew just how empty she could feel
they would surely want no part in her disasterous real

So she lay down in the shower
as the water ran cold
and prayed for it drown her
with the small hope that there was still a God to show
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
Brother is addicted to fairytales
In his head
Mother won't stop reading the words she claims can save us all
Father is addicted to never coming home again
Sister treats her skin like paper dolls

Maybe if brother kept in check with reality
And mother came to realize no words could save her
Father wouldn't have left in such brutality
And sister would never have the urge
To pick up the razor

Then maybe their future generations
Wouldn't have to experience
When parents claim they're "going on vacations"
To leave their children with but a glimpse
Of what this real world, real life
Taste is
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
This one's for all the ****** angels
Bearer of knives and guns
I know you didn't use to think this way
You were just like one of us
Annie McLaughlin Dec 2015
I heard photographs show who you really are inside
And maybe that is why
You say you're ugly every time
Annie McLaughlin Oct 2015
I wish to stop feeling like I am nothing
Because feeling like I am nothing
Only leads to doing nothing
Even where there is not nothing
To do
And feeling like I am nothing
Only causes everyone else
To view me as nothing
So maybe the only way to stop feeling like nothing
Is to become nothing
For those days, like today, when I feel completely and utterly worthless...
  Sep 2015 Annie McLaughlin
Mel Little
I could never know just how dangerous being a lamb is until I fell for the lion.
He could easily snap me in half, mentally, emotionally.
He is all predator, cool calm and collected.
All harsh lines and sharp tongue
All confidence and cockiness
But the way he moves, so beautifully
It breaks my heart.
And I am the sick ******* that can't bear to let go,
I would run if I wasn't so busy being caught up in him
So busy wanting to put him back together
Because he wasn't always a lion, wasn't always this.
He was a cub once, a smaller version of himself now
Lesser and more
But I will fall asleep tonight thinking of his roar
And what it does to my heart
Not afraid, but utterly transfixed
Stupid, stupid lamb
For falling in love with the lion.
The quote that is the title was written by Stephenie Meyer ten years ago. The poem however, is mine
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