confess

confess: /kənˈfes/ admit or acknowledge something reluctantly

i confess.

that i climbed over folks, who gave me hands.

my fingers peeled away their faces, and my feet

sank deeply into their backs. when i pressed

against their generous nature-a necessary lever

needed to pushed myself up

and out; leaving burned, on their skin.

their DNA soot- crusted and lingering under my nails

i confess,

my burdens are not the men

who made me, but the people,

who let them do the unimaginable things.

the burden is how it turned me

into a serial killer of a twenty-something,

single white fiasco; a repeat offender, of primitive reactions

to her reasons.

i confess,

i tangled others in the mire and took some of their

pieces. to replace my pieces . all of us incomplete,

in the end.