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.