My thoughts are dim like streetlights

words like broken glass cracking in my throat

I scream,

Why is it never enough?

You answer with a hug and a kiss 

Your version of an "I'm sorry"

all the apology I'm going to get. 

try to make up for years of trauma in two sentences

7-second challenge

Did you mean to make your daughter feel like shit? 

i retreat

no place for me here

I'll hide in the closet until I don't feel real again.

i know i'm worthless

but I didn't want the reminder