I was very young,
About 8 years old,
When I found blood in my underwear.
I didn’t pay any attention to it,
Until my mother saw it and asked me.
“I don’t know,” I said.
“Tell me if you find blood again,” she said.
She explained menstruation to me,
And explained what a hymen was.
She told me it resembles a wet napkin,
And that it could tear easily,
And that they’d kill me if I tore it.
This scared me,
And stopped me from doing anything.
I got my period after that,
But there was no pain.
I thought I had broken my hymen,
And I cried all night.
I hate my period.
I still hate it because of the pain it gives me.
I loved being pregnant.