Poem #93

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Not only do I carry the burden of what that man did to me that night I also carry the burden of every victim he assaulted after me. Every woman older or younger than me got their life ruined because I didn't report him. I kept my mouth shut so now I carry with me the pain of all those women. Not only do I carry the guilt of being assaulted but I carry the guilt of all the women after me. They haunt me at night they come to me in my dreams and ask me why. I see their faces every time I close my eyes. I hold all the responsibility for those nights in my figure tips my hands are getting hard to hold up. I see him everywhere I go with a new girl it seems as though every time I see them its too late as I can see that the life has already been drained out of her eyes.

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