I Had to Save Myself

I remember

Your hands around my throat

Couldn’t fight you off

I was too little then

That’s when I learned

There is was no one

Coming for me

No knight in shining armor

No one was coming to stop their little prince

From wrapping his hands around my
Little princess throat.

Squeezing

I gasp

Would that be my last breath?

No one was coming for me.

I had to save myself.

-My first memory is violence