family should not shame a young girl about her body

[CORRECTION]

family should never shame a child about their body

[CORRECTION]

no one should shame anyone about their body



i ******* disgust myself,

is it because i disgusted you all?

~k.hem

I don’t know how many nights

I’ve spent crying silently.

Not wanting to cry out.

Just hoping her soul

would see the darkness in mine.

And save me.

But all remained quiet.

Perhaps that’s why I went to fire for comfort.

She was like chaos

a beautiful chaos

that danced in raging fire

   that sang in lightning’s wrath

      that embraced the looming night.

~k.hem

we are all children of the ocean

she was born from the morning mist

he was from the clear caribbean

i was born from the storming sea

~k.hem

This pen is the x-acto knife

I use to cut out

every scar on my body

every blemish on my soul

every burn on my mind



Perhaps I won’t feel it after I’ve cut it out.

~k.hem

I want to be washed away

I want waves to break into me relentlessly

   until nothing remains.



I want to be washed away

I need my existence to vanish

    to be crushed into dust.

~k.hem

The books have lied.

They have stolen my heart

But left my body.



The books have lied.

They ripped my soul out

And left me to rot.



The books have lied.



~k.hem