The Girl Who Cried Wolf: A Spoken Word Poem About Trauma, Therapy, and the Wolves We Carry

In this spoken word poem, Kate reimagines the familiar fable of The Boy Who Cried Wolf through the lens of trauma and therapy.The Girl Who Cried Wolf asks what happens when the threat others dismiss is not imaginary—but internal. In trauma work, the past does not always stay in the past. It lingers as an intruder that circles the nervous system long after the danger is gone.The poem explores the experience of living with internal alarms that others cannot see: the voices, memories, and embodied fears that can feel as real as teeth at the door. When someone has lived too long beside a wolf, their warnings can begin to sound like exaggeration to those who have never heard it breathing.This piece reflects on disbelief, on the cost of being dismissed, and on the lonely work of surviving something that continues to live inside the body.If you have ever tried to explain a fear that others could not see—or felt the quiet shame of being told you are “too much”—this poem is for you.Copyright ©2026 Kate EarleyMusic: Sonder by Niall Byrne