GRIEF Poem: complicated, by Madi Lokke

need as such a complicated term
what most consider a bode of necessity
or a sensual desire
you coerced need into survival bones
of my body, and branded me
told me to earn love, but never worthy
let me believe in loyalty, then
siphoned every bit of life from me
depraved of self-identity, but starved
on the day I walked away
I saw your begging, thieving eyes
I never turned around

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