May 17, 2018

Years …

it’s taken years

but they did it

from my earliest memories

right up to today

almost

everyone I know

everyone I don’t know

looking at me

like I’m a

small

teeny, tiny, little thing

whose thoughts

whose words

whose works

have no worth

are beneath notice

are unworthy their contempt

so long I’ve heard this

seen this, felt this

fought this

unrelenting assault

on me

to no avail

that I

think I could believe

they might be right