"FACINGFACES 2002 - 04" SELECTED POETRY

I DON'T KNOW YOUR NAME

I cried last night
The first time about this moment
A moment in time you took from me
No, not took ... you ripped from me
I pay the price for your actions
I live with the results of your previous choices
I didn't't ask to ever see your face
Yet in the night did you come to me
Ripped me away
Hid me in a dark dank place
Brutalized and tore away what little I had rebuilt
I don't know your name

Forever you will be that dark face, mean and hideous
The hours are enough to torment me for years to come
Yet you may have left a demon
A horrid fatal demon in your wake
I cried last night
I don't know your name

Life was looking up
Going forward, new beginnings
Un-sinking that sunken ship
Yes that is what I was doing
Working so hard
Now .... I face YOUR vile demon
I don't know what the answer is
Right now it is just a torment
A battering in the mind
Hopes and dreams put on hold
How terribly unfair that you
Can play around in my head
I don't know your name

I cried and grieved and let lose some of my anger
I am angry and wounded
You may have signed my death sentence
All for what? Why? To what purpose were your actions?
Why did you choose me to violate?
Why stumble upon my path?
Your demon, that may become my own
And then I would have to live with you, every day

I don't even know your name!


Minnetta A. David
USA
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