Father of You

from Collected Nightmares of the 13th Century by Kathryn Valentina

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Did I teach you how to hurt without hurting yourself?
I think I taught you how to hand the pain to someone else.
Did I teach you how to take what you were owed?
I think I taught you to take what you felt you could own.
Lessons lost in domination, precious words lost in translation,
at some point we shut down the conversation.
Maybe that was me, I had nothing left to say.
Yeah, it was all me, I stopped trying to get away.

Another day, another day halfway dead,
knowing how you picked apart all of your friends.
Carcases limp in your jaw.
Another day, another panicked glance,
at a man in a denim jacket standing against a fence.

I’ve come to realize, it’s easier to take the blame than recognize how brutally others take.
It’s easier to say that it was my fault than admit how terribly I was robbed.

One day I’ll pay for all of this. I promise.

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from Collected Nightmares of the 13th Century, released January 1, 2021

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