“Were you raped?”
R-A-P-E-D.
The five little letters
in the question
I fixated on.
I gawked at the therapist,
thinking,
This session will
H-A-U-N-T me forever.
Why couldn’t those
five little letters be
L-O-V-E-D
instead?
Confused,
all I could manage to respond was,
“M-A-Y-B-E.”
Author Bio:
Brenda E. Suhan is a college student and poet from Nashotah, Wisconsin. Her work has been published in The Kiln Project at Saint Louis University, Milwaukee Public Museum’s “Objects and Artifacts - The Poetry of the Museum’s Collections,” Creative Communication, and the EPA’s “Sense of Wonder” competition. She loves the way that words can transform experiences, connect people from all backgrounds, and transcend time.
R-A-P-E-D.
The five little letters
in the question
I fixated on.
I gawked at the therapist,
thinking,
This session will
H-A-U-N-T me forever.
Why couldn’t those
five little letters be
L-O-V-E-D
instead?
Confused,
all I could manage to respond was,
“M-A-Y-B-E.”
Author Bio:
Brenda E. Suhan is a college student and poet from Nashotah, Wisconsin. Her work has been published in The Kiln Project at Saint Louis University, Milwaukee Public Museum’s “Objects and Artifacts - The Poetry of the Museum’s Collections,” Creative Communication, and the EPA’s “Sense of Wonder” competition. She loves the way that words can transform experiences, connect people from all backgrounds, and transcend time.
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