Jovana Lj. Milovanović
BOUND BY GUILT
Jovana Lj. Milovanović, Serbia
In front of the cage,
you stood with the key,
holding me still -
„Look what you’ve done to yourself“
you screamed.
You never stopped me from running -
just chained my wrists
with silence and guilt.
You never raised a hand,
yet I wore bruises
like a second skin.
You’d laugh and say,
„So clumsy, love -
you must have tripped again“.
Jovana Lj. Milovanović is a Serbian poet, born on December 10, 2000.
She is a member of the Association of Young Artists of Culture.
Her poetry collection In the Beginning There Was a Woman is currently in preparation.
