Traumatic Kisses

When you kiss a girl

who has trauma

don't pull her against you

preventing her escape

don't join your mouth with hers

bordering on violent

the blanket over your head

suffocating

don't grope her body roughly

she make begin to shake

and you probably think it's from enjoyment

it's not.

Don't grab her tighter when she

attempts to make a quiet exit from the room

that's all she wants

Don't.

Just don't.

Unless of course

she enjoys it.

but not me.

Don't grab me roughly

I've been manhandled one

too many times in the past

Don't press your body against me

it only serves as a constant reminder

of everything i lost

Don't tell me you love me.

When you say you love me

and you are a male

please understand

it's not your fault

that I don't believe you

I don't find men capable of love

and especially in someone like myself

and when you look into my eyes

and find they are clouded with the affects

of drugs to numb anything and everything

do not blame yourself.

Do not question how you can fix "us"

when I was broken in the first place

and it is not your problem

to fix.

Do not take it upon yourself

to be the hero.

And god forbid

don't

fall in love with me.

I hurt everything i touch.

Friends, family, lovers-

nobody is safe.

When you kiss a girl with trauma

just don't.

Author's Note

Sorry for any offense this may invoke.

Reviews

[Correspondence]

No offense taken ;)
This poem is so very powerful, this traumatic piece sounds like a letter to those who've abused girls, basically giving them the finger and never the time of day. The ending stanzas are my favorites, "so when you kiss a girl with trauma/just don't"