Letting go of Mutual Friends

A Post-Breakup Poem

Maggie Bowyer

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Photo by Alvin Mahmudov on Unsplash

In the same vein as Tuesday’s poem, I wanted to talk about “mutual friends.”

If you were abused, and you tell your friend who is also friends with your abuser, they should immediately distance themselves from your abuser. You deserve friends that believe you and put your safety and comfort above their other friend, your abuser. I personally would not ever…

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Maggie Bowyer

Freelance writer. UNGODLY, WHEN I BLEED: POEMS ABOUT ENDOMETRIOSIS and more