Friend Or Foe? (May 9, 2016)

Often wonder

How doe we know

If the person posting

On the web

Is real

Or a troll?

As stories

Fill the airwaves

Of predators

Who have lured

Too many innocent victims

To their deaths.

Or

Scammed people

Out of their life savings

With fake illnesses

And promises.

A question

I ask.

Knowing

How vulnerable

Some communities are

Like my own

The transgender.

Exposing ourselves

To these monsters

And their evil intent.

In the hope

Of friendship

And validation.

Of whom

We are

As a person.

Therisa © 2016

Author's note: Another night, of broken sleep, found me, wide awake, during the wee hours of this morning. After a futile attempt to get back to sleep, I got out my writing book, and started to write. This is, the second of two poems, which I managed to produce, in an hour's time, before I crashed out, for the rest of the night.

Finding myself, needing to ask, this very important question. Given the huge number of people, who have fallen prey, to these monster. But, as a trans-person, I have a fear, I may fall, for such, a monster, myself. Especially, given my abusive past, and my lack of self-confidence and self-esteem.