Gaslight

A dirty and scratched mirror image of my poem Permission Revoked (https://substack.com/@boopfeiffer?r=34xje8&utm_medium=ios) for the Madness and Mayhem Day 11 challenge.

The challenge today was to take a poem where the character had a choice and to rewrite it as if they had made the opposite choice, or to write an alternate ending.  I struggled with this, but came upon the idea to write the same poem from the point of view of the other person in the relationship - the villain, making himself the victim.  



I am broken you are 
cruel 
to ask when my heart 
has been a toy
you play with 
my stability 
leaving the floor wet
with tears you forced 
from cloudless nights
I had nowhere 
you slammed the door
shut on all we could have 
had you been the kind 
person I thought you were
going to 
take care of me 
like you always have
taken care of me