Tricked into wearing this skin of family I succumb

to everything you have ever wanted of me the

pain of being genetically entwined to the flesh

of someone less human than myself

Day by day this scar you granted me takes me

back to the things that I have been so terrified to

face things that have made me the creature I am

things that have broken this psyche and

reduced me to monstrosity

Trying to scrub your touch from my skin I am

presented with blood hardly mine anymore and

the pain of the things you did taking this child

the flesh of your flesh and slitting it

shoulder to hip

Pouring me out pouring me away

pouring me into the mouth of a God

you have made me hate

Leaving me empty and residual like a fingerprint

on your perfect memory that even now I cannot

bring myself to tarnish