it's another early AM when salt tears splash my face, they sting, but they are daisies compared to the swords I have endured with you. it's almost half a year since you took what was not yours to take, with your mumbled excuses and your dismissive gestures. i brace myself, the pain looms again, i shout at it to GO AWAY, the reminder of what you did, but it is a pain that paracetomal will not subside, because the pain is a memory; the increasing anxiety, the thought of you inside of me when i did not want you to be there. GO AWAY.