My Father's words resonated in my head What did he mean by "product"? My seven year old mind tried to put it together like a puzzle I couldn't quite put the pieces together I left my father's words scattered on the floor that day
Ten years later you crawled out of the darkness into my soul you took my dignity that night and my mind couldn't help but drift to the grocery store ten years back where my father told the cashier that he had made a "product" for men
The seven year old me picked up the words my father spit out, not knowing what they would one day do to his little girl I put them together each piece fit perfectly I knew exactly what my father meant by "product" now
"Product" that's precisely what I was to you something to be used for your satisfaction I was to be submissive to the male "dont disappoint him"
I was held captive in my own body a body that was now in your possession
you used me carelessly left me dry without life nothing could be planted in me and flourish anymore
Somehow what you did to me was acceptable what you made me do over and over again until it was ideal for you was acceptable I am a product that is what I was made to do I was meant to be used by you over and over again
this poem is about the night that a man took my dignity and forever used my sexuality against me.