In My Defence by Rachel Tanner

In My Defence
 

In my defence, I
  never imagined
  that my mental illness
  could make me
 unlovable.
  In all the chaos I am
  you found nothing
  worth keeping
 

see when you turned away
  you left a gap I can't
  stretch my body across I can't
  fit your folded mouths in my palm
 

to keep me away from
  blaming myself this time.

Rachel Tanner

Rachel Tanner is an Alabamian writer whose work has recently appeared in Tenderness Lit, Impossible Task, Tiny Molecules, and elsewhere. She tweets @rickit.