Detect Me

Connect
One feeling
To another--

Present to
Past--
You to me.

Connect
The neglect
I experienced

At your hands
To the hunger
And the shame

I'll always feel.
If I had my fill
I would not still

Crave
What you never
Gave.

I might meet
My own needs
Instead of

Hating myself
For having needs
At all.

See me.

Pay attention.

I am not
Just
Your invention.