Survivors

CN: sexual violence, childhood sexual assault/abuse, complicit relatives, sex

Image of a field, with a wooden fence post and some barbed wire in the center, and close-ups of the ground, which has grass and purple and white flowers growing against the fence. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Your hand curled around my open hip is almost maternal,
Gentle,
As you pull me closer
And my hips circle yours
Sex aside, we love each other like our mothers couldn’t love us
But the bodies of unloved daughters
Are minefields
Or at least mine is
A marketplace of scars,