Please know if you have been in my life this is for you
This is for my mom who was always judgmental Who was unsympathetic Who on multiple occasions threatened my life if I cut myself Because that totally made sense
This is for my father For moving in and out of my life More often than my taste in music changes Who always says he wants to start fresh Unaware you cannot erase the past Or fill in the blank places in my memory when you weren't there
This is for cancer For stealing my first best friend at seven And everyone around me expecting me to know how to handle it
This is for my first love Who came into my life at a mere eleven You too moved in and out of my life You have brokenΒ Β me infinite times You have made me feel unloved and alone Even when you were suppose to at least be a friend You can't seem to understand that you Are my first love and as such I will never stop loving you You have used me before and even that couldn't sever it I wonder when you proposed at fifteen if you loved me I mean it's clear who loved who most in the end isn't it
This is for the man who sodomized me at thirteen You were probably in your 30's Didn't speak much English But you knew I was young Did you know my mother called me a ***** after?
This is for the man who stole my virginity at fourteen Who was at least ten years older than me You kissed me one day Invited me in the next Promised you wouldn't take off your shorts if I didn't take off mine And instead took off both of ours
This is for the elementary teacher who saw him kissing me And instead of stopping it closed her window
This is for my depression and anxiety That started at twelve and still hasn't ended at twenty The cuts never scarred me and that always upset me
This is for the two boys who used my depression as a gateway To use my body Who ****** me at fourteen Who pressured me until I gave in Who wouldn't leave my house until they finished
This is for me For hating myself so much I'd let anyone use me back then
This is for my first high school boyfriend Who forced his hand down my pants after I ended it And who I had to crawl away from so he would stop
This is for my " best friend" and her boyfriend Who at sixteen brought me to their place to study And instead held me down together So that he could **** me And then pretend like nothing ever happened It was not easy telling my first love about that We were dating so he assumed I was confessing to cheating Even when I clearly said it was **** to the couple My love went out and got a ******* from a ******* as revenge He didn't tell me for almost a year
This is for my first friend with benefits Who called me "baby, sugarplum, princess" Who ****** me once a week Who texted me every moment of everyday Who made me feel special and cared for Who made me want him But suddenly got a girlfriend Not that it stopped him from sending me pictures Or telling me how he wants to touch me
This is for any man who seemed interested ****** me or used me in another way And then never spoke to me again
This is for the guy who desperately wanted to date me at nineteen I can forgive you for the rancid way you smelled And I can forgive the fact that you didn't close the door Whenever you used the bathroom Or that you made me smell like cigarettes But I can't forgive the fact that you ignored me When I said no and stop and cried as you ***** me And I will never forget the aggressive growl you let out
This is for my second and last friend with benefits You wouldn't kiss me or touch me Just take from me I was an object to you You wanted to date me but I knew the type of man you were Infamous for being a player And just two months ago when you assaulted me Moments before your new girlfriend showed up You laughed at me and said you were just playing But being held by my neck and grabbed at While saying no and stop didn't feel like a joke to me I wanted to tell her but someone said you broke up And when I finally had the courage to say something Everyone, including my best friend yelled at me
This is for the guy who was my best friend Who had claimed to like me for nearly five years And when I'm finally ready to give him a chance He uses me and tells me he still has a girlfriend After asking me out just the day before
This is for the loneliness that is setting in
This is for my best friend who yelled at me for waiting Who complained to me last night about being sad When she has everything I have ever wanted She has the fiance, is pregnant, and has a career in a field she loves But sometimes even the world isn't good enough
This is for all of my dreams I was three when I started wanting to find love I was ten when I started wanting motherhood I was eleven when I wanted to work with animals I was eighteen when I felt like I lost my soulmate I was seventeen when the doctors said I might not be a mom I was nineteen when anxiety and depression sent me running From every classroom in tears and wanting to die.
This is for you so you know when I cry It's because of all of this It's because everyone I have ever counted on Everyone who should of been there hasn't It is because I have been broken more ways than I can count And it is a miracle I am alive Because for years I swore to end it all at eighteen Here I am an unhappy twenty though Still waiting for it to "get better".