This is Not a Poem

This is not a poem

This is not a poem, this is a scream

This is a cry of rage from everyone you've ever hurt

This is for you to read, and for you to say

From everyone, to everyone

Even and especially themselves

Who have you hurt?

This is from them

This is their hate, this is your insensitivity thrown back in your face

Who has hurt you?

This is your rage, your tears

This is you getting justice for every injustice you've ever been served

This is everyone you've ever made fun of

Telling you how you changed them

Tearing your heart out with your own actions

This is everyone that's ever made fun of you

This is you staring into their eyes

And telling them they're monsters

These are your slow, deliberate words

This is you ripping down everything they are

Until they cant touch you anymore

This is turning on yourself

Forcing yourself to believe, painfully

That you are you and that is all

And you cant hate yourself anymore

This is strength and this is weakness

Its a beginning and an end

This is violent and perfect

Free and restrained

This is triumph.