It’s been a rough summer in so many ways. Just go on over and look at all the wild news, and even the wilder social media! As a HSP trying to stay informed while filtering out and blocking the onslaught of… all the things, I am a touch fried. With an effort, I rallied focus enough to cough up some lines today:
we ran among the others– all children
he was laughing
my expression fixed in righteous anger tickled him
when i could catch up, i’d swat him, tell him to stop–
he would not– he does not–
as if my actions could possibly take anything away from him–
he went on and on shouting RAPE! at me–
in mockery of all vulnerable people, of our mother–
shaming himself who would claim to be a man (of god)–
it was only a game out on the schoolyard
no adult attended to his shouts or my outrage
a joke, a joke–nothing was meant by it
to this day, i choke