# REGRETS?

Do you regret what you did to me?

that day you robbed me of my childhood’s naivety?

And how with a knife, you threatened my mortality?

…………..you made it clear; I was not your priority!

Shame and blame quickly became my new reality.

My face still smarts from your backhanded brutality.

"This is just a few lines from 2 of the stanzas of a much lengthier poem I wrote earlier this year. It is brutal and it is to reflect my #metoo experience as a very young girl and how still, the memories haunt me."

Louise Goodwin