Excerpt From A Poem I'll Never Write - Tumblr Posts
Do not be scared out there
You are the storm
Storms don't get frightened
-katie, 16:50
@catworldss
a woman is criminalized
should she decide to
terminate a pregnancy
while a man can back out anytime
such is the reality
i am forced to live by
and so is jessica
and katrina
and amanda
and gabrielle
and thousands of others
in gritted teeth,
i try to swallow back
the bile rising from my throat
i feel nauseated
just thinking about that
night at the parking lot
where my jeans were torn
ferociously from my body
i tremble from the warm
puff of wind blowing
my nape
my boyfriend just learned
the truth this morning
when i threw up
all over the kitchen floor
he was aghast
i tried to reason out
he didn't use protection
because he expected me
to be the one responsible for it
it's a sad world,
gina could only weep now
a sad world for women
but therese tried to play it cool
though the pregnancy test
that screams positive in her face
shatters her composure
she never wanted this
haunting reality
but her neighbor had forced
himself on her one drunken night
an episode she's trying to drown
in a deadly shot of alcohol
it's a cruel world
but rachel is carrying her seventh child
seventh child!
as though the six she bore
aren't too many
rita had her second child today
via c-section
a procedure she could barely afford
but her labor seemed longer
than the death march
she was not able to bear down
so a cut suddenly became
a logical procedure
it's a cruel world
and dana knew it
the moment she was judged
for not wanting children
thus having her tubes tied
at twenty five
it's a cruel world
for maria
for delia
for claudine
for martha
and thousands
of other women
who have to live with
society's standards
of right and wrong
a woman is criminalized
should she decide to
terminate a pregnancy
while a man can back out anytime
i close my eyes
as i listen to people
with no uterus
decide on my future
-katie
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