You'll Think You Forgot

 You'll think you forgot
how it felt once upon a time
to feel touch unwanted
masked as summer rain
droplets of love tainted 
by raw discontent

You'll think you forgot
how it felt once upon a time
to live through it
to remember it again and again
years later when you think it won't
it will still affect you more than you accept

You'll think you forgot
but forgetting is not how this works
time may blur the image
but the feeling will always remain
devastated, cold, raw ache deep in your chest
that it happened and could happen again

But be gentle with yourself
for wherever you may be
and whatever whoever may say
it will never have been your fault
but the fault of the one creating flaws
destroying hope and harming that

which should never be harmed.