I am not going to go through all things but wish to say what you believe is poetry, to me is prose as each line reads right into the next and there is no puncuation to end a sentence.
You wrote:
Let us not seek to become the crushing shoe
nor stay content with the increasingly painful retelling.(period)
Teach us to value ourselves and on to a long sentence Because without the period you make this all one sentence. I only mean to help and perhaps someone would see this differently. I do get your message in this write.