College alma mater: you took so much from
me, offering only goodies in exchange---
given with one hand, as you violated
me with the other. Yes, I graduated---
silenced and broken
beneath the relentless onslaught of forces
from which I found neither shelter nor escape.
You changed my tangible joys to paper-thin
ghosts. Finished, you tossed me out like the trash you
always said I was.
Starward-Led