Abuse Poems
Run
by Kayla Mumford
I love you big
I built a whole world for you
I chose people
made them audition just to
be in your life
I paved paths and roads so you’d
know exactly where to go
So you’d come home everyday
To me
So you would like the same people
......
Easter Afternoon
by Lee-Ann Azzopardi
The barren trees remind me of my soul
Since the snow has melted
As the coldness of this Easter afternoon
Hits my face like a slap from you
It stings as my tears fall
And the pain cannot cease in my heart
For I never thought the sadness
Would hurt like this
And it would never arrive on a joyous day
But the solitude has left me
......
Woman in Chains
by Evelyn Judy Buehler
She lately hears lyric nightingale at the sole window,
And through its bars witnesses a melancholy moon,
And her heart longs for the freedom of velvety flight,
But lessons she now knows weren't learned too soon!
An innocent victim of childhood abuse and ensuing rage,
In the days of sugar plum fairies and make believe,
A streetwise teenage runaway, who soon lost her way,
After making an unwise choice of whom she would love!
During lights out she makes plans and begins to reminisce,
Knowing in her young heart, it won't always be like this,
......
the slaughter of the unhinged
by Mister Rotten
him [cold like the arctic wind]:
the frost I recall,
the slightest of shivers
the chill that brushed over my shoulders
I was longing to thaw, I was longing to shield
yet she burned, and she blazed
while I smouldered
—
......
darkness
by Lauren Davies
i feel my way through the darkness, stumbling
over every bump
falling through every crack
looking for you
holding my hand out for you;
always looking
for you.
one day i will remember it was you
who took away the light
Run
by Kayla Mumford
I love you big
I built a whole world for you
I chose people
made them audition just to
be in your life
I paved paths and roads so you’d
know exactly where to go
So you’d come home everyday
To me
So you would like the same people
......
death bed
by aditya vats
I stroll around
my deathbed,
too often.
White sheets wrapped
around the
broken
bed’s base and
cotton pillows placed
under the heaven,
Where they’ll
......
Proverbs 13:24
by Ryan Jordan
Proverbs 13:24
He stares at his feet so
he doesn’t see the belt
In his father’s grip.
Over dinner, he’d spoken up,
Or out,
Or back,
The exact angle or fact of the offense
......
first november
by aditya vats
(sixteen)
As my wooden
clock slapped
twelve.
The glorious
October, dawned
to the
hideous
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“Godly Details”
by CHANDRA RICE
She was raised to believe – and I believe –
the world began when she was born.
She has the Earth in her eyes.
Her body is her body despite the feeling some parts don’t belong.
But I see sonnets on her skin – the wonder keeping the stars apart –
and her laugh is this life-changing thing.
I am struggling stretching learning healing suffering growing,
......
