clearly, she remembers,
(like the early morning cognizance
after a dream)
the day she discovered
the Unutterable Name:
tucked inside its forest-green
filing cabinet that was
still slippery with the smell
of newly laquered paint -
coated with dust and regret.
and she descended,
knees falling into a ragged
pink-shag carpet, familiar
as the Words
beaten into her brain;
she descended,
armslegshands still supple
with the rounded flesh
of youth,
fingers trembling upon seeing
the
Unofficial Adult Documents,
Parental Understandings Not Mentioned To Young Children,
The Name For The Emotional
Batterings.
and she understood,
a searing kind of realization
shooting through her heart,
marking her mind forever:
the beginnings of a battle
she would fight so hard
to win.
Reason for writing:
the day that changed my perceptions forever on a battle that took me so long to realize was not my fault
Birth sign: Taurus
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