Me, Too

It, too, has happened to me.

I am the darker sister.
They tell me I’m lying
When I say it happened to me,
But I ignore them
And keep fighting,
And grow stronger.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be heard
When I say what happened to me.
No one will dare
Say to me,
“You’re lying,”
Then.

Besides,
They’ll see
And be ashamed—

It, too, has happened to me.

JANETH JACKSON is a native of Moss Point, MS, who reecently earned her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Mississippi.

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