Saturday Poetry -- Surprise

i said

if i told

my father would never speak to me.

my mother would have a nervous breakdown.

my oldest brothers would be exposed and get sick.

their perpetrator friends would deny -- and then laugh.

my sister would hate the chaos and gain weight --

all the while denying.

my youngest brothers would not understand --

but they really would

sexual abuse runs in families you know -- a filthy epidemic.

society would point their fingers.

i sure do have a lot of power.

the world sure does revolve around me.

well nothing much happened

the world continued to spin on its axis

everyone denied

and 

i

got

healthier.

Cecilia, an abuse survivor