Family Abuse Poems

Make changes to break the cycle
Be mindful, always aware
Never create a fearful unsafe home
Always protect and care

Fear as his dads car pulled into the driveway
Watching...

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Double pain in my heart
The sad I feel tears me apart
From my our family I had to band my brother 
That would of killed our...

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In a somber house on Maple Street, where shadows creep,
Lived Lily, a child, in silence she'd weep.
With every creak of the floorboards at night,
She'd hold...

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Angry voices
Bellow my full name
Crystol Lynn!
Do you hear me?
Enter the mother and
Father. 
Go away to another place
High above the trouble and terror
Isolate my childhood self
Justice...

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two children chest-tight
these ties to her life severed
in no man’s land
fruit plucked from family tree
overdose of suffering
...

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My family spoke two languages
I’m not the same
Results came in still thankless
Feels weird to be diagnosed anxious
Results so plain
I’m still hiding under several blankets
I ain’t...

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Cursed
I was cursed from the moment. The sperm hit the egg
 that laid inside my mother’s womb 
I was cursed with the DNA from both...

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Still wrestling with impasse to contentment

Dispense sing with fidelity blithely agog
just me and mine dark shadow 
slinking along outer limits of 
the edge of night...

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I have waited for this moment to come when the moon will dialogue with the sun, I have waited for this moment to come when...

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And I just want to be a woman 
But I feel too trapped in these four walls 
I can't break it 
I can't make it...

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Four walls are enticing 
Can't get out of my own head 
Who is that figure in the mirror? 
The face that haunts me 
Nimble and...

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 Little ones gone
house gone
husband gone
life gone
dreams discarded
they tell me run along
I leave my homeland with a song

one day
I may be old
I will come back...

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On the day that my family died,
They didn't give me a chance to dry.
I WAS 12

They told me that I was now on their side,
That...

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I’m a dog stuck on a lease I’m stuck in this non release stupid thing why won’t let me go free?
Why don’t they care I...

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After witnessing a murder meant for me after surviving a car bomb igniting my skull crushed my face bruising my brain i received threatening calls...

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