Just A Body

Just A Body

A Poem by Hope
"

Bare and shaking/Naked and afraid/Blank stares blurred with tears

"
They rip at my clothes
Hunger in their eyes
To treat me like meat
Under the guise of being
"Nice guys"

They ravage
And leave carnage
Trailing kisses down my neck
Then toss me out like rubbish
Proud about the woman they have wrecked

They claw and tear at me
My inner most parts
My heart
My soul
My body
My mind and all my charms

Plucking me until there's nothing
Scraping at the shrapnel
The war zone of my being
That has been left of me

By the men who came before
Docked at the shore
Told lies then made me trust
Then cry
Then leave once more

I'm
Bare and shaking
Naked and afraid
Blank stares blurred with tears
Tossed aside
Ashamed

In my mind 
I think I deserve it
Because I should have known
To think 
Someone could love me
For all I am
When I know
I am just a body

© 2024 Hope


Author's Note

Hope
As always please share your thoughts, comments, and critiques. Love always!

<3 Hope

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Added on December 2, 2024
Last Updated on December 2, 2024
Tags: body, mind, emotions, trauma

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Hope
Hope

Fairfax, VA



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I am an aspiring published poet and have been working on writing a collection of poems for about a year and a half. I started writing as an outlet for the things I was dealing with in life until I rea.. more..

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