A poem a day for 2015 - day 8 - Because

I will not dismiss your voice

I will not not hear your cry

I will not call you a liar

I will not ask you what took you so long to come forth

I will have compassion

I will have ears

I will have ready shoulders for your stories

Your tears

Your shame

I will have erase for your shame

I will have hands you can hold

Feet that will long walk with you

I will have mouth that will close when you need company and no noise

I will have memory of your yesterday

Of you

I will hold my head up with you 

Next to you 

For you

You 

You 

I will have this this be about you

You

Not his celebrity

The media

You will not be a joke

Not on my watch

You 

You