Back Again

They won't stop

They won't quit

Dominating

Who knew a harsh whine

Could drive me over

Make the air vanish

Constrict my lungs

Leave me shaky

With tears in my eyes

I should have expected it

I should have tighted my grasp on my emotions

I shouldn't have allowed

A child's impatient whine

To shrink my worth

And throw me

Into the prison

Of my memories

Back into the abuse

That I thought I had hardened my heart

Against

A soft whine

Shouldn't have taken me back

To where I was

On square one

I should have done better

I should have been better

This poem is about: 
Me

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