BOUND BY GUILT

In front of the cage,

you stood with the key,

holding me still –

„Look what you’ve done to yourself“

you screamed.

You never stopped me from running –

just chained my wrists

with silence and guilt.

You never raised a hand,

yet I wore bruises

like a second skin.

You’d laugh and say,

„So clumsy, love –

you must have tripped again“.

Jovana Lj. Milovanović is a Serbian poet, born on December 10, 2000. She is a member of the Association of Young Artists of Culture. Her poetry collection In the Beginning There Was a Woman is currently in preparation.