away

alone and seen by nobody

she walks silently on the road

with only pain to keep her company.

she gives,

and they take,

as always.

noise comes to assault her

and she trembles,

but she is only here

to be brutalized

no one cares

for her brain.

she grows up to plod along

the sides of roads

every cruel mistake

torturing her mind.

everything set up

to make her blame

and hate

only herself,

the child is not allowed

to be angry

at the man.

she looks for love desperately

but in this world

finds nothing

but more pain.

judgment, rejection

no one can see the pain

behind the rage.

no one.

they leave her

and tell her it is because

she is not good enough

for them.

guilt a-plenty consumes her

but no one sees her

no one at all

and soon she will raise

a flag of surrender

and she will not be here

anymore

to write these poems

to anyone.

no one sees her

and no one is there

and life is too cruel

to be lived

life is cruel

and so is pain

and so is incest

and so is this place

and so are these voices

and she wants nothing more

now

than

to go

the fuck

away.