Pain or Pressure
Are you feeling pain
Or pressure?
I learned that phrase
When I was sixteen yrs. old
Legs spread open
Bottom inched to the edge
of the examination table
My doctor
(Face between my legs
Que tip in hand
Trying to fit anything
He could inside my vagina
As I sat there
Clinched and crying)
Looked up and asked:
Is it pain
Or pressure?
A poem and situation outside of my experience that you’ve made me feel as if it could or did happen to me. That’s poetry. I honestly think girls and women are the bravest, strongest people I know. Thank you for writing and sharing this poem.