Innocence Is Gone
(Very personal prompt for me. It hit home.)
It was late one night.
Raining.
Cold.
I was five.
Hiding upstairs.
It the grownups room.
Under the sheets.
Suffocating, I could hardly breathe.
That’s when she approached me.
My friend.
Or so I thought.
She took advantage of me.
Did things I never dreamed.
Took my very innocence.
Broke me at every seem.
Told me I needed to learn this so I’d know how to be with others.
I was FIVE, I didn’t have a lover.
Too stunned to speak.
So I kept it inside.
Until I was to troubled to continue to lie .
My parents said everything was going to be fine.
Parents lie.
They also never did anything about it.
Said to much time passed.
And I think that hurts the most.
That they got away with it.
Every unwarranted thing.
I was just a kid.
And now it’s too late.