They've moved on I am stuck - oscillating Moving and immobile Cycling through memories Nausea, pain, no relief Suspended in a reality They are unwilling to recognise Better to hide behind closed eyes To ensure their own pleasure Can be chased While I pray to porcelain gods Begging for a break Desperate for comfort Terrified of connection Clawing at intimacy As if sure it will disappear if I so much as blink Their disbelief dragging along my collarbone Their impatience lancing through my jaw socket Their indignation sliding down my bicep Their ignorance burrowed under my shoulder blade Their dismissal coating my pelvis That is what he put in me- When he crossed that boundary Forgotten latex in pursuit of self-gratification No protection from the devastation And they chose him. Consequences that rip my skin Decimate my identity The violence of their abandonment is unrelenting In its refusal to let up let me go let me be