By Sophie Dunne
He is pale like a cloud
His skin like melting ice cream
Blowing me kisses as I work
Leaning far over his seat
About to fall
As he devours my presence
And attempts to maul
He stands to stretch as I approach that area
And like a security guard
Inspects my body as he passes me by
Feeling my uniform morph into my skin
His poisoned hands
His mind of sin
And it wasn’t just me
My colleagues met him too
They felt the caress of his melting skin
And now we’re here confiding in you
But you don’t want to hear
And you don’t want to know
Your role of team leader
Merely for power
And control
Because you don’t want to confront
And you don’t want to report
But the sharpest stone is that we don’t have your support
Instead you tell your colleagues of women
Facing in front of you
If it happens again give him a warning
Do not freeze
Only then I can confront
And put you at ease.
Sophie Dunne is an Amazon Best Selling author, poet, copy editor, podcast host, and culture and society critic from Ireland who delivers an intimate poetic narrative in her book, Company Alone. When she’s not writing, Sophie records a podcast series on the non-traditional female experience with her girlfriend, Tiana called she. for shifting her experience. The poem is an excerpt from her book.
