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Confessions of a Childlike Broken Spirit

I confess that as a child the ruthless caused me 
crippling pain with deeply wounding words and 
bodily attacks that led me to falter through life.

I confess that various family member’s inflicted
incessant cruel criticisms that wholly damaged 
my character leaving a soul shattered in shame!

I confess that all of these hypercritical people 
painted me with a dark psyche and their evil 
assumptions resulted in an imprisoned stigma.

I confess to never evolving as an adult due to severe
childhood trauma and domestic violence, and as such, 
it is necessary to speak to me as if I'm a Child! 

I confess to being stuck in my adolescence probably 
between 6 and 13 yrs. old and can’t remove myself 
from that timeline, so, I plead, how do I move on?

I confess that during childhood the intolerant 
labels of shy, odd and withdrawn caused me to
be ostracized while living in utter humiliation.

I confess that in elementary school, my hands were hit
until they bled for laughing. And my father punched me
in the face for laughing destroying any possibility of joy.

I confess that my brokenness is impossible to
mend due to the atrocities inflicted.  I tried to be
silent for so long drowning in unspeakable hurt.

I confess to having fast and frequent flashes of the 
details of the horrors committed against me causing 
doubt of whether I blacked out during the worst of it.

I confess that I pray every day to be set free from 
the shackles they’ve built all around me, leading to 
my many missteps for which I beg for compassion.

I confess that my broken spirit sought fairness and
kindness from everyone who I crossed paths with 
but instead I found solitary condemnation.

I confess to pleading most urgently for the wicked 
to cease from inflicting unbearable anguish on 
God’s frail ones according His Word!

abusebullyingchild abusefaithfree verse

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