Tooken

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    Tooken

    Looking at the pages

    But I can’t focus on the words

    How can I interpret meaning,

    When all the lines are blurred

    I sit here wondering what a curse it is to be

    A woman

    To be me

    A Black Woman

    To be me

    A human

    To be me

    To be Alive

    To be me

    To live aloud

    The meaning of what it is to be taken advantage of just because a man feels like it

    Men look at me and they want what they see

    And when I say no Im their natural enemy

    I have no rights to my own body

    Accept to be owned by someone else

    To love, to hate, to blend are emotions that are bargained for theft

    I want to be left alone

    Why doesn’t that register?

    Maybe because someone said I was pretty

    It is the world’s duty for me to be ogled at

    The girl wearing nothing at all

    Or maybe even draped in 1000 layers

    Does it really even matter?

    No,

    It doesn’t matter

    I can wear whatever I want, as IT EXPRESSES ME

    And those who steal,

    Those who come to take

    Those who want

    They will have me.

    And what can I do to protect myself

    My daddy wouldn’t

    And my mother couldn’t

    My stepfather should not have

    And my aunt just fell in tow

    It was only the one time,

    But ask me did it make a difference?

    Does it show?

    Who would I be?

    Am I the same?

    Does any of this even make any sense at all?

    Probably not…

    Truth is how could it?

    How could it make any sense to someone who doesn’t know what it is to be tooken

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    Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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