To be loved.

Consider it a whirlwind. Everything is blurring around me faster and faster until I can't make out what it is. My eyes can't keep up. Just a few months ago I didn't know where I wanted to be the things that I wanted to do. Where I would be without you. You beat me down to that dark place no one wants. To where you could keep me yours and not worry about intruders. Now it's a few months later and life is looking up. I'm going to college in only three months. I have never felt so excited. And I have someone new who treats me with respect and cares about my opinion and doesn't hurt. If I have learned anything from you from this it is that I deserve more than I you threw to me. I am not an animal. I will not beg to be noticed. I will not whimper when kicked. I will not be that again. I deserve some say in what we do and what I wear and I deserve to be loved. Wholly and without remorse I deserve to be loved.