**** Attention to my readers:: I am planning to move to the Wilmington, NC area and open up a store that will feature abuse/suvivor art. I am wanting to know if there are any of you in that area that would like to consign your artwork?? I would also like to offer healing art classes as well. I am looking for interest. Please let me know via email on this site. Thank you and blessings to you all!!!!
Abuse-poetry is another form of art-therapy that women use to express their feelings in a therapeutic way.
I began writing abuse-poetry when I was around 12 years old, right after my first abuse. It was a way that I could release some of the pain I was feeling and yet keep it hidden away from the world.
Alone and scared, is anyone there? she cries in the night, doesn't anyone care?
left all alone, with her shame, she must face, No one can know, she is such a disgrace,
Numbing the hurt, behind the pain she tries to hide, Maybe no one will see her tears or the scars on the inside,
This morning she woke, just like any other day, Tonight her innocence is gone, stolen away,
Was it something she said? was it something she did? She blames herself for the position she is in,
"Where is God?" she thinks, "Doesn't HE even care?" She looks around for him, but doesn't see him there,
Feeling dirty, like garbage, like someone whose bad, She thinks to herself no one will ever want me, Maybe "He'll" take me back..
After all, he did this, maybe he likes me, in some way, I have nothing left to live for, I guess I can take it another day....
As I look back on that abuse-poem, I cringe... and think, wow, what a sad and lonely place I was in at that time.
What I have discovered in the emails I get, is that we all are in different places in our recovery, but we all have one thing in common... we all are sisters in recovery. We all feel the same pain from our sexual abuse. The pain is the same..no matter how small or extravagant the abuse. The pain is the same. We all experience it..and we all deal with it the best we know how!
Abuse-poetry is a wonderful way to therapeutically deal with your feelings.It lets you get out on paper the emotions you are feeling inside.I know that when I was a teen-ager, I wrote poems almost every single day!
I would love for you to share some of your abuse-poetry on this site for other recovering women to see and relate to.
Keep writing and expressing yourself..do whatever it takes to get healthy my sisters!
God bless you all!
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Do you have a poem that you have written about your abuse or about your recovery?
It can be old or new, short or long, it doesn't matter!
Any poem that you have written would be appreciated to share with you recovering "sisters".
You don't even have to use your real name...
Click below to see contributions from other visitors to this page...
broken





Broken like a tree,
never Knowing the real me,
They took what i knew was that person,
that looked like me.
Broken and confused.
Beaten and bruised,...
You stole my inoccence





First you degraded me, you threw me in dirt.
You only wanted to see me get hurt.
First you gave me a sore tummy then you laughed you thought it was funny....
georgie





Im 43 now my abuse took place when I was seven
I didnt know my own truth as it wasnt me or so I told myself
or it didnt happen im making it all up
after ...
Too Numb To Live





Im fading.
Its over.
I wish it never happened.
It changed me completely.
And I hate myself so much more because of it.
It ruined my sexuality- fear ...
The Little Girl In Yellow





When I was five years old
The world around me quickly changed.
I no longer wanted to play with my friends
Because they did not understand my pain.
I ...
Listen





Hear me out loud
but dont make a sound
And listen what I have to say
my best friend
09/27/08 was our day
when i first knew
that i will take that ...
MY lIfE sToRy





A story that has been kept as a secret,
But must be heard
for this is my story
the nightmare that became my worst..
Since I was a kid and only nine,...
God of Hell





Do you see this hatred in my eyes
This is the result of all of your lies.
Please don’t speak of your regret
Your apology reeks of death.
I’ve lived ...
TRUTH #2





Living day by day, thinking about what tommarrow i will say. Knowing i will have to lie, about my feeling problems in life. The happpiness is fading, the ...
TRUTH





Living day by day, thinking about what tommarrow i will say. Knowing i will have to lie, about my feelings problems in life. Having my innocense be taken ...
Pain Of A Married Man





I meet a man in college in 1979
Someone elses' husband I shouldn't been with
The romance seem so right
Didn't listen to momma
Didn't listen to friends
...
Surrender





Sitting in this empty room
Looking at broken pictures of me and you
A broken life together
I always thought we’d make it forever
What has become ...
Shhh





My voice is shaded in desperate tones of silence.
I scream at the top of my lungs,
Only my decrepit shadow notices.
Silence is my eternal curse.
cherie ...
flower minded





I am bruising
delicate beings such as Myself are ill prepared for
Brutality.
You’ve picked me
out of the crowd because I am, I was
Beautiful.
I’ve ...
Don't Let It Happen





Oh God don't let it happen again.
Let him be happy-
let him not be angry-
let him be distracted-
Oh, let him be tired.
Breathe slow, be alert, don'...
A Path to Destruction





I was on a path
to destruction.
I was my target,
due to a deduction,
that I wasn't worth
facing the truth.
overcoming the hurt,
of my youth.
when ...
Drowned Innocence





He's got her around the neck,
her body tainted and torn.
He draws her near so can
see her frightened eyes be scorned.
He's got her in the bath tub,...
The Door





When I awoke this morning
I finally looked out the door
Not knowing what I'd see
Not really sure
I thought I might see
Bright flowers
Green grass ...
looking through my eyes





looking through my eyes and i see
the man standing at the foot of my bed
looking through my eyes and you will see
the father who is a monster
looking ...
A family Member no more





Parents are gone, just me and my sister
something wasn't right in the household now
Something did not feel right
I turned around there she was my sister ...
Wounded Child





There once was a little girl,
Sent down from heaven above.
She came into a family,
That had no room for love.
She knew she was not wanted,
From a ...
Where You Really There?





Were you really there God,
While that little girl was used?
Did you really cry,
Every time that she was bruised?
Did you wrap her in your arms,
While ...
Innocence





Every night she hears him
Every night she cries
The doorway to her childhood
Is locked from the inside
She stays in her bleak bedroom
A chair behind ...
I love him anyways...




I stand here tall and strong today,
for I was small and weak when I was young.
The things that father put us through made me numb.
I wasn't the only ...
my boyfriend went wild



So I am 18 now this happened when I was 14.
It was 1 week before my birthday and I was all excited.
My boyfriend said he had an early birthday present ...
Letting Go



I was sexually abused by my uncle and I wrote this peom not long after the first time it happend. The poem is about how I was crying out silently hoping ...
iSOULated by author of
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Have your loves scattered like the wind
On the outside looking in
Does he want to be
your only friend?
Always guessing the rules of his game
Today ...
Broken Down
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Broken Down
All the things you used to say…
And all the hurt that came my way…
…
All those words you used to scream…
And all that spit that sprayed ...
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I lay awake late at night wondering if he will show. When he does I pretend to be asleep. Not a peep nor word cry nor scream can escape my mouth. For the ...
perfect victim
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I never had to ask myself, I was free of blame.
But now I can't help but ask, "what can I do so it doesn't happen again?".
A sad excuse for an empowered ...
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Battered, beaten, broken
As i look in the mirror, blood
drips, my face sliced opened
Worn, withering, weeping
I thought about killing him
while ...
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Battered, beaten, broken
As i look in the mirror, blood
drips, my face face sliced opened
Worn, withering, weeping
I thought about killing him
while ...
Abused boy:(
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Abuse;
Here's a little story
About a little boy
His foster parents locked him up
And threw away his toys
He cried everyday
For they never let ...
turn around
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8 months of continues arguing
Fighting back the tears
Covering up the bruises
Looking like a fool
Finally walking away
Begs come from him
Sounding ...
Glass Heart
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Glass can be broken into a thousand pecies, It can be glued back together, but there will always be little fine line remaing, reminding you of when it ...
What Really Happened
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He is stumbles around the house moaning my name
The floor boards are creaking
Closer and closer towards my bedroom door
I hide under my covers trying ...
What Really Happened
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He is stumbling around the house moaning my name
The floor boards are creaking
Closer and closer towards my bedroom door
I hide under my covers trying ...
Don't Think With Simplicity
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There’s a drummer in my head
Not of the percussion sort,
Oh no no.
These melodic erotic
Waves are that
Of a greater power.
As the ocean pounds
The ...
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The bruises no one but my best friend ever cared to see, the tears that til this day are still apart of me, skin thats missing from me the laughter you ...
me
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A TEAR FALLS DOWN A BLUSH RED CHEEK
ANOTHER FIGHT, ANOTHER WEEK.
PARANOID BEYOND BELIEF
A SHATTERED HEART, A FALLEN LEAF.
TO ALL ...
Alone
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Alone
Sitting in my room,
Alone,
Hearing loud voices from the next room.
She told me to close the door and
Try to block out the sound coming
From ...
Twelve
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Forever hiding.
Begging!
Crying out ...
For someone to see.
Would anyone ever know?
Could anyone hear?
No-one saw the signs.
She didn't even care!...
cassie.. MY POEM
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He came into my life
the daddy i never had,
i could sit on his knee
cuddle into him, hold his hand
be a little girl with a daddy.
i trusted him,...
Beaten
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I wonder!.....
Am I ever going tp survive this pain?
Am I ever going to escape?
Most say their life is teribble
But try living mine!
I've been abused,...
nightmares
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My heart matches my wrist. They are both binded with ever-lasting scars. i am broken. My life has been drained away by the monster you have become. The ...
stuck
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what do i have that i do not see.
his hands touching me where i feel weird.
its the first time i really feel scared.
locked up in a room where its dark ...
THE WINDS OF PAIN AND SORROW
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The Winds Of Pain Love And Sorrow
by April Weit on Saturday, April 9, 2011 at 11:26am
I found out I'm pregnant today
I told him, he can't wait ...
HIM...4-4-11
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"Go to timeout!
YOU get eight minutes"
That's what HE says
That thing that tells me to...
Be a woman.
"Please touch me here,
If you want to be a ...
rape
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i cry for help,
i couldnt do much more.
pain everywhere and i could not tell,
where are these voices are in my head
he hold me tight
didnt want to ...
Does anybody hear me?
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Doesn't anyone hear my screams? My cries? Why God?Why does my daddy do this to me every night?
"Broken Boy"
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~ I wrote this for my Brother, Charlie ~
HE CONTROLS THE BROKEN BOY
HIS WORDS CUTTING AND ABUSIVE~
PETTY, SEF-SERVING, INDIGNANT,
INTRUSIVE
TENDER-...
"SILENCE"
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INTENTIONS SILENCED ~ CROSS-ROAD MISSED
MEMORIES UNRAVELING ~ SUBCONSCIENCE PISSED
PURE INNOCENCE ~ SUBDUED BY FATHER
SELF-RESPECT ~ ABANDONED BY ...
Daddy
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What right did you have
to invade my room?
Was there a sign on my door
that asked for your doom?
Did my eyes ever signal
that I needed your touch?...
Finality
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To take your dirty desires
and make it reality
How can you light those fires
Did you think of the finality?
Did you think it was okay
to take away ...
A vision that just won't end...
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The memories won't go away
they seem to just want to stay...
and replay in my mind
over and over again
play, stop, pause, rewind, stop
play,...
Childhood
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Living in fear - hope death is near
Battered and bruised - so confused
object of lust - self disgust
Happy Birthday,4 - child whore
Feeling like dirt ...
Mommy, Mommy,
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Mommy Mommy, you couldn't not have known
Mommy Mommy, why didn't he go
Mommy Mommy, why didn't you do a thing
Mommy Mommy, you just left me with him
...
Help Me
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Somebody help i have nowhere left to turn
My family's gone. I can feel the burn.
I wish so badly that my past would go away.
And i wish i could ...
love
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love written with a pen
sealed with a kiss.
if you are my boyfriend please answer this?
do you love me, or do you not?
you told me once, but i forgot....
A Silent Cry...
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Cuddle after cuddle,
tear after tear,
the one's that believe,
are the only ones that care;
Looking back on a time and a place,
seeing me as a child,...
If Daddy Only Knew
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My name is Anna, and I am nine.
When I was three, I watched my mother die.
My dad wouldn't listen, he was to drunk to care.
From that day on, my "father"...
the more
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the more i cry
the more i scream
the more bad things that happen to me
i hide in my closet and under my bed
as she starts to scream i waish you wear ...
Leave me alone .
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I have no poem, but i do feel the need to share my story .
I want women and even men that have been abused to understand that they arent alone .
I was ...
Wasted Love
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I am so angry that I wasted all my love on people that absolutely can not love me back. Family, what a joke. I am all I have. It is up to me to nurture,...
Wine Stains ~A Poem About Recovery
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Tic-toc!
So
precious
the time--
seized from hands
of yesterday's clock!
Years
of pater's
drunken rage
refusing removal
from
life's ...
Wine Stains ~A Poem About Recovery
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Tic-toc!
So
precious
the time--
seized from hands
of yesterday's clock!
Years
of pater's
drunken rage
refusing removal
from
life's ...
mommy mommy cant you see
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Mommy mommy why can’t you see
Your husband raped me
I went thru ten years of hell
but I will not fail
Mommy mommy why cant you see
This is what ...
im not daddys girl no more
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IM only 13 years old.
IM trying to figure out why this world so cold
Part of me is missing
And nobody will listen
I lye in bed under my covers
He ...
Few, Far and beyond
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I don't believe the things I have done
And all the times you thought you won
The things that happened make me sick
And most of all...your a prick
The ...
why?
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everything was great between us i loved you more than anything you gave me life how did it all of a sudden change?
you hit me for your personal problems ...
The Kiss
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I think of the mom's that would kiss all the hurts ~
of all of the knees under all of the skirts
of those sweet little girls who were ...
RLC
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I can throw my hoody over my body, as if i could hide.
I can close my eyes as if the tears won't pour, and magically everything is alright.
and now ...
THE END!
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SHE SITS.
She sits in the corner in cries hollow in empty there's no soul left in her eyes, not knowing where she went wrong, hoping that the pain wouldn'...
Childhood Places
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Old Spice cologne triggers sickening memories,
Fathers are not supposed to touch daughters in sacred places.
Footsteps in silent hallways make her ...
Childhood Taken
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I Stand in a room with unfamiliar faces, no one noticed me her alone.
From the middle of the room comes a small child walking in the shadows.
I look ...
MY LIFE STORY
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A story that has been kept as a secret,
But must be heard
For this is my story
The nightmare that became my worst...
Since I was a kid and only nine,...
LITTLE BY LITTLE
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Little by little I'm writing about you,
Little by little I'm missing you.
Little by little I'm forgetting you,
And little by little it feel's like ...
MY LIL SUPERHERO!
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Hey look up in the sky...
It's a bird?
It's a plane?
No, it's Perla in the way!
She's very strong,
Compare to all the nigga's that are wrong.
In ...
WITHOUT YOU.
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Without you I'm nothing,
Without you I'm air,
Without you I'm hurt,
I don't even care.
About the happiness all around,
All the surpises from under ...
MY DARLING
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Did you know that God above,
Created you for me to love?
He picked you out from all the rest,
Because He knew I'd love you best.
I had a heart and ...
IT'S SAD
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It's sad saying good bye
Cuz I'll know I'll have to find a new place to hide
I needed you
And I prayed for you to come back
So I made a sacrifice
...
MY TREASURE
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You are my treasure far and deep,
Your the treasure I would love to keep.
Your the treasure in my heart,
Love together and never apart.
Intruders try ...
KEPT IN FOR SO LONG
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Listen up mama
For the thing's I've wanted to tell...
The thing I've kept...
I keep thinking
Why didn't you say good bye
Why didn't you fight like ...
why do i deserve this?
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Why do i deserve to be treated like this our love is broken broken for good what did i do to make you think i mistreated you you look at me and you cry ...
Empty
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I smile to hide the hole
I laugh to show I'm okay
When I'm alone the tears fall like rain
Leaving little puddles that sink into my open sores
To ...
Silver Lining
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High Self be with me...
Hold me when I hurt
Hold me when I cry
Stop me before I burn
Stop me before I turn
Help me stop the numbing out
Help ...
Tortured
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Nightmares of the same thing repeated time and time again
His filty wet thing going up into the privide part of my body
Being pushed and shoved torn ...
hide and seek.......
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daddy, it hurts...this game hurts me...
how about hid and seek, I’ll help you find me.
come on daddy, this game is no fun!
dad: hush I well stop now....
Just Maybe
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You ask why I didn’t tell anyone
What he did to me….
Well maybe, just maybe
I didn’t want to relive the pain and misery….
You ask why I didn’t tell ...
Scarred
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All I can see when I close my eyes is your blank stare
When you looked at me you had no soul
You struck me once, twice, many times more
All because ...
An Unfamiliar Silhouette
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An impetuous force thrust fiercely upon me
Waves heaving wildly from the savage scene
Paralyzed in raging rapids, thrashed around at sea
As I rewind ...
Do You Know....?
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Do you know what it's like to live with fear?
To be afraid every day and know you can't escape from here?
Do you know what it's like to wake in ...
Alone
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So many friends yet so alone
Lots of people around me people but still on my own
Why I feel this way? It's all down to him
The man that made my ...
Looking down on myself
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Looking down on myself
What do I see?
A shell of a person
It's really not me
I see a wreck
A woman so scarred
She used to be happy
Now she is ...
my soul
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How do you un kill a soul
that died so long ago?
Should be pure and white
but so young the innocence was taken.
Decayed shattered pieces held together ...
daddy stop it
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im just a little gurl
entered in a shattered world
foster care has tooken me
im in a heap of pain
i dream of that crazy nite
when my dad brought the ...
let me breathe
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you said it would never happen again
but it did
said you loved me
but here we go again
been tired of calling stupid
for all the shit that you did
...
Where Are You
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Somewhere out there
Someone knows how I feel
I can't be alone
This pain is too real
I look everywhere I go
In likely and unlikely places
...
TO Love Myself!
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You taught me hate, I learned to love.
You taught me pain, I learned to heal.
You taught me work, I learned to play.
You taught ...
Pain!
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To Love Myself!
You taught me hate, I learned to love.
You taught me pain, I learned to heal.
You taught me work, I learned ...
Tougher than the Rest
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I wish to tell to you
The way in which I fell
That turned my life my whole world
To nothing but a Hell
My own personal hell
Where love does not ...
stand up
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Stand up
You call me every night
Crying on the phone
The same story over again
With the same guy
I keep on telling you let him
Go but you don’...
Loathing
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Hollow myself out.
And listen for empty echoes.
The days drone on,
as only whispers.
Questions grow mold,
with orphan answers.
Abandon these ...