Submissions by CometSocks (Comet)

I find I am better at subtraction
Faster at taking you away
And seeing where I stand without you
Not what I could be
Grow to be
Become
With you

My boyfriend got me pregnant
Despite our contraception
But the state holds power like a monarch regnant
Because they seem to have this misconception

That life starts at the moment of conception
Despite not being able to survive on its own
The government has this extrasensory perception
That a life that can’t live being killed can’t be condoned

They want me to sit on my knees and atone
Say sorry and carry to term something I can’t hold
To go out of my mind with a body still not used to hormones
To let this child go...

Bare back
Clothes off
Panic attack
Waiting for takeoff

Words trip
Skin marred
Second dip
Eyes seeing tar

Voice strangled
Mouth mute
Feelings mangled
Silenced by brute

Strength waning
Words taxing
Body straining
No backing

No is nothing
Won’t hear
No is nothing
Only fear

Touch to skin
Goosebumps flourish
Sucking in
Terror nourished

Bed is a cage
Unable to get away
Biting back rage
No is all she can say

Hands still ...