Don'T Touch Me

DON’T TOUCH ME MEANS MORE THAN WHAT IT SEEMS DON’T TOUCH ME COMES FROM A WOMAN WHO'S BEEN HURT DON’T TOUCH ME COMES FROM A WOMAN WHO'S BEEN LIED TO AND PUSHED INTO THE DIRT I REFUSE TO PRETEND ANOTHER DAY DON’T TOUCH ME AGAIN OR I SWEAR YOU'LL PAY DON’T TOUCH ME SHOULD TELL YOU THAT YOU MEAN NOTHING TO ME SO WHEN I SAY DON’T TOUCH ME KNOW THAT IT GOES DEEP DEEPER THAN YOU'VE EVER LOVED ME DEEPER THAN YOUR MENTAL CAPACITY DEEPER THAN ANOTHER EXCUSE DEEPER THAN ALL OF THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL ABUSE DEEPER THAN THE MOST HURTFUL THING THAT YOU’VE EVER SAID KNOW WHEN I TELL YOU NOT TO TOUCH ME IT COMES FROM A PITIFUL PLACE DON’T TOUCH ME COMES FROM BEING CALLED ALL THOSE PITIFUL THINGS BEING PUT DOWN BEING LET DOWN REALLY IT’S A PITIFUL THING DON’T TOUCH ME COMES FROM ALL THOSE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS WORRIED ABOUT YOU ALL THOSE PITIFUL NIGHTS DON’T TOUCH ME COMES FROM YEARS OF TOLERANCE JUST BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE A COMFORTABLE SITUATION I WAS COMFORTED ALRIGHT COMFORTED AFTER EACH BRUISE BEING COMFORTABLE HAS NEVER HURT ME WHAT HAS HURT ME IS SIMPLY BEING WITH YOU YOUR TOUCH JUST REMINDS ME OF ANOTHER LIE ANOTHER HIT, EXCUSE ANOTHER LULLABY THEN YOU CHARM IT UP AND TELL ME WHAT I WANT TO HEAR THEN YOU TOUCH ME AND THE CYCLE CONTINUES SORRY, BUT NOT THIS TIME SO PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH ME YOU'RE JUST A LITTLE BOY JUST LET ME BE AND WHILE I WALK AWAY HE WILL NOTICE JUST ONE MORE THING THAT WOMAN THAT HE USED TO TOUCH HAS FINALLY MOVED ON TO BETTER THINGS ALL IN MY POET-TEA