you fucking left me, you left me on the
train
i saw your eyes glazing over while that man
wrapped his thick fingers around my neck and tried to take my humanity from me.
i watched you look away, i watched you
pretend like it wasn’t happening
what the fuck is wrong with you?
i will not be another Kitty Genovese
because
there have been far too many of us already
people talk about phoenixes,
but what they don’t really remember is like
Mama Butler said, we gotta burn before we can rise and well I have fucking
burned so many times I have fire in my blood instead of haemoglobin.
those horrible clawing fingers and those
vile words are not perceptions
that is why every slur, ever dirty look is
like a dagger in my soul
they are facts in my life, that shit
happens
how do you tell someone that you’re sorry?
i gotta rise above,
we, all us Kittys, we are all phoenixes
there is no other choice, no other road
i take my rage and hide my face
i spit truth because i cannot lie
i cannot die
because you left me on the train.
and my life is worth so much more than that
(c) 2013 T.G.
