Him by Christy Granger

Him

Christy Granger

This wasn’t supposed to happen
You were not supposed to happen
What a special ability you have

I do not trust easily
I do not trust at all

I gave up on love years ago
It was not for me
The torture it brought was too much for me

Here I am
What is happening
This is not like me

I will not fall for anyone ever again

I am a strong independent woman
What do i need a man for

For the way you make me feel
Never in my life has this happened to me
I would like to say it had

What a foreign concept
Safe
I have never really felt safe

Calm
What is that

Trust
How do I trust you so completely

This doesn’t make sense
How did you do that with such ease

I do not love

I do not like
I do not trust

Love was for suckers
I had no time for it at all

Maybe I trust men after all
Maybe I don’t hate all of them
Maye they don’t all hate me
Maybe they don’t all want to hurt me

My experiences with men have never been good
Just once I wish they were

More from Christy Granger ↓

* @christysdigitalhaven on Instagram

* Her book, Broken By Beauty: The Beauty of Broken Bonds, is out now.

Submissions are open. If you have a poem you want me to read on the podcast, now’s the time.

I’m looking for the one that lights you up. The one you’re proud of. The one you can’t read without crying. The one that makes you feel something big.

Let’s make space for the one this Fall on One Poem Only.

Deadline is Thursday, July 31.

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