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A Disturbing Prescience
%Meghan D. Coates %

They try to rape me in the bathtub,
With bloodied fists the size of mangos--
I scream for you,
struggling, gasping,
breathing water between flashes of sight and sound.
I see you, teeth bared,
the white of your gi bathed scarlet in the violent lights above

Hope sparks until
the drowning halts

I choke as
fingers, thick and gritty,
p uuuuuu lllll lllllllll back my head by the tangles in my hair.

I have to watch as they pin you to the wall
and slit your neck,
Blood,
hot and red,
Arcing over me, spattering my face and breasts--
and I wake up in tears

I touch your sleeping skin
Where the blade cut through
And thank God that it was only a dream--
Because this is the moment I realize that I love you

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