Pandora Bruwer Poet Free verse

For My Beloved Sister

I fled his tyranny
Not thinking
Not considering
That you will be next

Escape,
The only thing 
I thought of.

From the pain
The humiliation
The bruises
The hurt
The suffering

Never look back
Never think of it
Never consider the consequences
Of being free

Your beautiful cheek
stained with the tears
of my actions.
A young life shattered
by my desperation

I am sorry
I should have thought
That you would be next

In your innocence
In your beauty
You were perfect
For his perversion

You are the porcelain doll 
I dropped on the ground
Shattered into a million pieces

I may have escaped
But the guilt
Will never leave
Will never go away

It will gnaw rodent like
at the fine interior of my soul
at the casing of my heart
Till I can take it no more

I am sorry sister
For not realizing 
That in my escape
I have brought doom
Unto you

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David Williams June 15, 2012 at 2:04 AM Pandora abuse is a terrible crime, if it's real either report it or go get her...David Pandora Bruwer June 15, 2012 at 2:11 AM David, unfortunately one can't report things that happened a long time ago. And unfortunately I don't live in a country where the people in control of these things will do anything either. :) All one can do is deal with the past as best as possible.