The Man in the Hallway

 

They never found you.

I don’t know if you’re still alive or not,

but you live inside me, even today.

 

You are only one of many

men in hallways who have hurt me,

but I remember you most.

 

It is extremely expensive

to be a victim, all the moving around,

trying to find a place which feels

 

like home, the specialized therapy

for decades, psychiatric meds

piling up in numbers, but I’m still not

 

numb.