He is not a man. 

I don’t like adding

 a possessive pronoun to an ex-person 

who held my life in prison

 I broke free. 

And I abhor any part of my history

 That’s connected to him

The hell and the heathen of his shadows

 

I cringe when I have to add ‘my’

To any part of speech that

 contains the traces of his

Dark dark fingerprints

 Even in disgust, 

I hate addressing

 the ex-person 

with a possessive pronoun.

 Something of mine

 is so intimate

 that I want none of his claws

to find it again. 

His very name 

can sully ‘my-ness’ of me

 I broke free 

of the prison he held of my life

Why then, 

Should I attach a possessive pronoun

 to that unknown

 unwanted X in my life?