The girl tells herself this will be the last time

she lets herself be treated like this

that her softness is not a bad trait

that she’s just encountered people

who have taken advantage of it

the girl pauses the movie halfway

can’t stand the sight of a happy ending

her mind is a trap door

A rabbit hole determined to turn

everything into darkness

once she lets the ghosts creep back in

she knows there is no turning back

the girl cannot hear anything else

but the thousand times he said

I love you

except for the thousand times he said

I love you not

the ghost, this time not a ghost

but the girl stutters halfway into

her sentences

she knows even if her mind forgets

her body will remember

The girl -{renata ferretti}