you told me to open up
you convinced me
that you were a safe space
so deep down you reached
and pulled out the deepest parts of me
you reached your hands
into the darkest pits of my brain
tracing your fingers through all my trauma
intertwining them with my mental illness
you convinced me you understood
you grabbed ahold
of my fear of abandonment
you convinced me youd never leave
then you did
and when you removed your hand
you extracted everything
that i had locked away
so i healed myself
the only way i knew how
i tucked all those ***** little secrets
back into the deep abyss of my mind
i locked it up
and threw away the key
so no one else can violate my mind
the way that you did