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To My Father

I can feel the ghosts of your handprints on my body
Like scars that don’t hurt anymore but once did.
No one else can see them,
But I’ll always know they were there.
You didn't ask if you could leave your mark on me,
But before I could stop you,
You did.

You will never know 
what it’s like for shadows
to loom over your body
Suffocating its innocence.
You will never know what it’s like to feel as if
Beneath your skin, you are made of glass
Breakable at any instance
But I do hope that one day,
Someone takes something as important from you 
As you did from me

Copyright © Bettina Gannon | Year Posted 2023



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My Mind

Within a mind of endless gray and white tones, black a white thinking
All or nothing
Everything that touches my graze dies
Even the ounce of serotonin my body manages to supply

Copyright © Bettina Gannon | Year Posted 2023


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