Someone's Sister

You lost respect for me. Maybe it was my own fault for losing all my self respect. After all, how could you respect someone who doesn’t respect herself? I guess I thought that respect was like love. You always loved me long before I learned to love myself. In fact, you taught me how to love myself again and how to love others when my heart had failed. So why couldn’t you respect me? Why couldn’t you teach me to respect myself and to demand the respect I deserved from all men? Instead you laughed at me, and every shred of dignity I was clinging to fell from my grasp. I’m someone’s sister too. I’m someone’s daughter too. Someday I’ll be someone’s wife. And someday down the road I’ll even be someone’s mother. But all you see is someone’s bitch. And I won’t blame you for my fall to this place, but know that I certainly won’t thank you when I climb out of it.