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The Damned

The Damned

Overtaken by a dream;
it’s the middle of the night.
I started just to pace the floor
then  I sat down to write.

Out poured that old memory
I’m just not over yet. 
Sometimes things happen in a life;
life won’t let you forget.

I was too young to understand;
too innocent to see.
The danger of the stranger;
and all he took from me.

I could have cried out in the night,
maybe he would find some other.
Sleeping not so far away;
what if he found my brother?

So I endured the things he did
I swore somehow I’d hide.
Everything now done to me;
what’s broken deep inside.

It seems to me. It seems to be,
I no longer have a choice.
To take this haunting memory
and give to it a voice.

To cleanse my mind, my heart, my soul
This thing I do not own.
And somehow tell somebody else;
my friend. You’re not alone.

Edwin C Hofert
Copyright © | Year Posted 2018

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February 20, 2018 at 9:44 AM
A dark, courageous write, Edwin. I have a couple of friends broken by abuse, this speaks loudly for them. Viv
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