Pinned

"twelve years old

I put on your clothes

after your greatest remorse

I needed you close

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six years from then

pinned under a man

he ripped my pants

I didn't wear them again

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so after the hurt

I put on a skirt

continued the curse

lost all self-worth

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shunned by the girls

donned in their pearls

and as for the men

I thought them my brothers

          they saw only breasts

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and so I withered

down to a feather

so as not be tethered

again, enslaved by my gender

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not curvy

not dirty

not owned

not hurting

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just another child,

veiled in girl's clothing"

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- "Pinned" (2011) by Kelly Alexandra Hoff

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