Fear.
I hadn't understood that word until the day I met you
Because you,
You scared me,
I feared you;
And what you could do to me
I saw the way you treated
other people
Pushed them,
Beat them
And for what?
I still don't know.
You even told me I should
be thankful
But I think that even you
beating me would've been better than what you'd done
Because even though I was your girlfriend
You still took advantage of me.
My feelings.
My heart.
And made me believe that
This was normal.
I heard the way you laughed
maniacally after you'd locked me in the basement
And after I first looked back at it
After I'd left you.
I finally understood it.
Fear.
