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Poem about oppression - need title help! |
| Eyes like flint glowered above me your face contorted in a menacing grin how you enjoyed this . . . watching the way I’d draw into myself, visibly disappearing My tears smeared where they had once reflected the painful stream that had run dry across my face silently, I drew all of my outward self, into my center managing to detach myself, from myself I wanted to escape – from the oppressiveness in the room, the belittling, demeaning, shameful way you made me feel but a feeling of resignation fell upon me like a net suffocating me, suppressing me, encasing me in its web Staring through my tears that escaped despite myself I sighed . . slamming my eyes shut I caged my bloody prey inside – I was getting so good at hiding . . . the cracks and fractures were smaller and smaller Weary, with eyes of an exile, a gloomy hole of bottomless despair, I wept. |