Shaky breaths rattle your bones,
Your eyes search for safety.
You feel their hands,
When you look down, nothing is there.
A cruel trick,
To prepare for next time
When you failed the first.
"No means no."
The lady says,
Her hand on your chin pulls you in
She is so tall her head reaches the clouds
She speaks with the sound of thunderstorms
"I gave you this voice. Why didn't you use it, child?”
A deer in headlights, you were frozen.
“Do they pity you?”
Like the deer wilting on the roadside.