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body memory

this is not love burning my soul to ashes... this cannot be love that made my heart scream until its love fell off at the edge of life i have waited for a full day to tell on you to mama to tell to tell to tell of how you slipped into me whilst i was asleep creating fear in my heart with your fierce look at me ordering me to shhh shhhh shhh shut up my body carries a violent memory of you forcing entry into me of you soaking my fragile skin with your stinking sweat and i know this’ and i know this that when you imprisoned me in this painful memory you also imprisoned yourself in guilt – unless you are a psychopath, remorseless –

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Date: 11/13/2024 4:21:00 AM
Tough one, you always hope they get caught, or at least, beaten to death.
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Kgosietsile Dintlhoane
Date: 11/18/2024 12:11:00 AM
Thank You! for your comment Paul, we live in a world that is never safe and cruel especially to helpless children.

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