I Don’t Need Your Pity

I don’t need pity

It doesn’t fix

What’s broken

And in many ways

It serves to undermine

The words I say.

Don’t try to placate

Me with I’m sorry’s

While looking at me

As if you are staring

In the face of a stranger.

Don’t think

Of all that changesd

In an instant,

In a twist of fate.

Don’t pity me

Being blinded by

What’s broken

Instead of seeing

Everything

That has remained

The same.

Take a look

At me

Not with eyes

Of pity

But let them

Speak of hope

Of dreams.

(C) Michelle R Kidwell

Thursday. December.19.2019

3:31 Pm PST