Dedications

For myself and the fifteen-year-old version of me,

Who was tricked and used by an eighteen-year-old boy

Who I would’ve done anything to make stay with me.

May my words testify as witnesses

To his crimes

As I introduce into evidence

Records of every lie

For myself and the sixteen-year-old version of me,

Who was used and discarded by a nineteen-year-old boy

I lived through my worst fear and turned it into poetry.