I am..

legit a poem

I am the bitch everyone has heard of

in the small town where people

would rather sweep it all under the rug

than give the community care needed.

Although secretly, they love to talk about it

To their own understanding

from what he says

while they’re sitting around the dinner table.

17, maybe

I am deranged

for thinking they would understand rape

in the context of their own little bubble town

Where he would never.

He could never.

But he would, did, and has.

I was not the first, nor was I the last.

He will live a legacy of violence,

and I will make that very clear.

shirt i designed at 15 to distribute at school

I am crazy

for “still caring about what some dumb guy

did to me in highschool”

God forbid a girl talks about, or is affected by,

the violence she experienced in her formative years.

I will never forget all the things I heard

about my own story

I will never forget all the comments on instagram

where I was shamed and blamed by my peers at best.

<3 Bella