![]() I Know What You AreA Poem by Anna
Why do you put me through this violence?
Like tearing down my garden- It took so long to plant and grow I don't have the energy for it now when All I am is inconsolable, healing still From wounds that are ages of oak trees old. How can you look at me like that? I have held you in my arms Unable to lick my own wounds In the face of your little scratches- I couldn't bear them but I couldn't stomach them either. The same river of violence is in me Carrying me downstream, drowning The child that admires its wrath. Petals and leaves are everywhere All over the cobblestone All over the shoddy brick path- I have bruises in me, bones that ache. Rage is not a thing you notice It is quiet like the undercurrent That takes you out to sea. I can no longer ask you about it When it has found a home in me.
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