The price we've paid

~truth~

we gave you our stories. 

our time and our ideas. 

we shared them with the world. 

our voices were heard, 

and it was beautiful. 

we put the words out,

-people heard, and understood. 

we gave you pieces of who we were 

and yet 

-that didn't keep them safe? 

no, i suppose not, 

obviously-

but 

just because it wasn't altogether unexpected didn't make it right 

and it still isn't right 

so what is there to be done?

nothing? 

i say no 

copy and paste, those theives copy and paste

saying, 

look here, 

look at these stories 

come read them 

just come look  🙂

liars and fakes, yes, liars and fakes 

opened my eyes now,

twice again 

never forgotten 

unpublish, i click with a sigh,

unpublish my works 

i don't want them to end up on that site 

again

so we'll see...

they'll take this, i know they will 

yeah, teenfic.net, yeah, you will, won't you? 

well 

go ahead 

take my work 

take everyone else's 

sure, no, no, 

that's 

perfectly 

totally fine

we're sorry, wattpad says, we're sorry, but we can't take shut them down, 

and yes, i get that 

i understand why 

still it's frusturating that we can't do more

i keep hearing from people 

about their experience with this 

their own stories that were taken

and i'm thinking-

why? 

truly that's a rhetorical question 

and maybe the real question 

is why would i put my work out there like that for anyone to see? 

maybe because 

i wanted to be acknowleged

and who wouldn't? 

still 

worth the risk was it worth the risk?

i still love this platform,