Thick Skinned - What It Feels Like For a Girl

“Thick Skinned – What it Feels Like for a Girl” When you speak it’s as if stars cascade out of your mouth galaxies you produce musical incantations that I listen religiously to I watch your lips form glistening cupids’ bows they spread wide open like the subtle legs of a forgotten nun whispering vesper wishes before priestly sermons and John Donne your hushed and salient remonstrations, you now plant me in your sentence, no, that this should never have occurred at all we are irreverent in our choices forming new begottens you usher from the pulpit of your world eloquent reasons to justify wrong from right right from wrong as if your internal fortitude consists within a mirror universe deep and soulful it promises more than heaven those curves and waivers contracts we signed some time ago souls sunk in a bad marriage and hushed assurances of ‘til death do us part weatherin’ kissing the skin against my throat the very place my comeback is primed to be launched, yours deliver that kind of loose compensation lathered in snake oil and a clear path to redemption that tie my hands make me mute I was launched long ago from safe harbour, now off sure to lay down all my naked vicious antigens I have grown in the petri dish of my muddy life to fight your viral love like diamonds your words they sharpen and glisten cut through the thick tempered glass of me, through the epidermis of a close-packed woman you laser your refined tongue eyes viscerally undressing you address the wide open tableau of me, knowing you adroitly twist your points penetrating through to the now all too familiar subcutaneous safe base chakra of me within a short space of time I am sold into your chicanery wanting little of the life that was before the unfortunate taming of me (LadyLabyrinth / 2021) "What it Feels Like for a Girl"/ Madonna , Paul Oakenfold (Remix) https://youtu.be/tbtt0WTKqnQ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/8-steps-that-explain-why-_b_9143360 http://www.hiddenhurt.co.uk/domestic_violence_poems_1.html#learned https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/7940/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_It_Feels_Like_for_a_Girl