Fault Lines

emily torres

(TW//Includes Themes of Sexual Violence)

In a room with eyes for walls your male gaze becomes a box

The saran wrap I wear alters your sinful monologue to be

Blameless?

I won't accept liability without rebuke

I can’t internalize this disgust for I’m unsure if it’s mine own to identify with

The male gaze I sustain –

I sit in with my shamed semen

back to poetry

Emily Torres is an aspiring writer based in El Paso, Texas. She is an English/American Lit major and Creative Writing minor at UTEP. She enjoys reading, hiking and tea. She writes about passion filled themes like love and lust.