Pain
What do you know about pain?
Bullying,
Tears.
Locked bathroom doors.
What do you know about pain?
Abuse,
"You're ignorant."
Lay down, you're not sick.
Oh hush honey, no actual pain.
Rape,
We were friends,
No consent.
No no, sh, pain pain, like pain that will refine you as a person?
Abandonment,
why am I not good enough?
why don't you believe in me?
No, consuming pain, vengeful pain.. You know?
Foreclosure,
another foreclosure,
Debt to save the house,
Creditors, lock the doors.
Pain?
Am I not a woman who has felt pain?
That just scratches the surface.