Poetry

I Am Not For Sale

by Ann Sanborn
06/12/15
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I Am Not For Sale

You think you can buy me

With cheap trinkets you try me

You spread out your vice

And then

Roll the dice 

But I am not for sale! 

You lock me up here

In this house full of fear

You tell me I'm safe

And then

Rape my faith

You take all my food

I am starving

subdued

You take all my water

Yes, I am your daughter

But I am not for sale!

The lies of the past

Are catching up fast

They're standing beside me

They're standing inside me!

The silence of years

wrapped in your fears

Truth twisted and broken

Truth waiting

unspoken 

What price will you pay

On this fateful day

When I will trade all

To stand straight and tall

And say

I am not for sale

 The clouds of deception

Clear my perception

For this day I see

What matters to me

There are tears on my cheek

So you see me as weak

For I dare to love you

Then, gently shove you

Away from me

For I am not for sale

I know what's true

It's all around you

Yet, you shut your eyes tight

To the death you will fight 

To force me to take

Your gifts wrapped with hate

I will escape

With my faith that you raped

For I am not for sale!

Unspoken words

That you never heard

They silent and still

As I bent to your will

But now I am older

I am louder!

I am bolder!

You can't lock my door anymore

You can't shut my mouth

The truth has come out

You offered your best

I left it all with the rest

 For I am not for sale!

I will live free

From your hypocrisy

Starving and thirsty

I leave you with mercy

I choose not to hate you

In fact, I forgive you

My wounds-they will heal

Torn apart by your zeal

 When I said 

I am not for sale

Your hatred misguided

Our family divided

Like a tree hit by lightening

The truth far too frightening

For you to see 

Yet -

The storm set my soul free

I owe you no apology

For blinded, you hang fiercely on

To the lies that you have feasted on

While I sat chained to truth unspoken

You tempted me with your tokens

But now

I walk light and free

away from your hypocrisy

I am not for sale

Your cult deceives and chains its captive

I have seen a heart receptive

Twisted to a mass of hate

But this will NOT be my fate

I have dared to look to HIM

To know what is and isn't sin

To love, and love, and love again

To gather ravished faith and stand

To say

I am not for sale!