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Child Abuse Poems | Examples of Child Abuse Poetry

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Premium Member Semper Alumnus
Thank you God That I’m always a student I abhor The slaughters of the babies Toddlers were killed dead Young boys and girls were shot dead Pregnant women were stabbed dead That’s terror Young men were executed Young women were raped and killed That’s horror Women...Read the rest...
Categories: bullying, cancer, child abuse,
Form: Haiku



A poem I should not have to write
It is a poem nobody wants to write, About what will never be right, About those who think they have the right, To take from a child all that is bright, And make the sun disappear out of sight. When...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, abuse, age, allusion, analogy,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Gaza Lottery
Look up to the sky will you live or will you die? is a lottery you see we the west dropping aid pretty and adorable exploding bombs the grandest casino of war will we save you? even so not for long you will...Read the rest...
Categories: allah, bible, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
The black duck
If only she knew what it was or where it lay , The stain in her being, body, and soul. A mark that all seem to notice or even point out, She walked burdened with the...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, father daughter,
Form: Rhyme
DID nightmare
DID NIGHTMARE having Did is not all that’s cracked up to be. Having to try to remember what you did, day to day Having people say “ I wish I had DID” because when I don’t want to...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Free verse



Sold
Sold To be sold by the people Who were supposed to love you To be sold at Just 9 years old For alcohol and laughs To be sold Day after day Why fight? To be sold by people Who were supposed to...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, abuse, angst, betrayal, child
Form: Free verse
I do not forgive you
I am skin, I am bone My vessel all alone My heart, it is broken as it stays inside it’s tomb Breaking Through, breaking out Well, it’s all I want to do I’ve left bruises and scratches Hollowed out my chest Waiting...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Tortured soul
Dear God What more do you want from me the Brain You gave me wants me dead Dear God I dont Know What more to do I'm tired I don’t have it In me anymore Dear God Please just take me Bring me home I...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, dark, depression,
Form: Free verse
Cursed
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 sides of the family. I stood no chance born into...Read the rest...
Categories: betrayal, child abuse, dark,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seized Incognito
Inked Confession Innocence stolen Defending my elders extremism Fields of olives, roots never sowed by me Dagger dripping red Inch by inch the watermelons are mine Dancing in glee, I bury tiny white robes and red stains Forever blind to, denying all...Read the rest...
Categories: abuse, child abuse, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
What About Me?
I sit and look at my Father, His silent cries when he looks at his daughter, In the darkness of the night, Battling the tribulations so that we could unite. I can sense his fear as he sips his...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, betrayal, birth, child, child
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Won’t you
With the sky turning gray today Won’t you come and take me away from this place Won’t you Won’t you take me away Turn my fears away Won’t you Won’t you take me away To the light Above Won’t you I...Read the rest...
Categories: angst, anxiety, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
The parallel life of a woman
To be a woman: Is to search your...Read the rest...
Categories: analogy, child abuse, father,
Form: Free verse
Abba
In the cool of the morning, He walks in the garden, Calling for those he has made To punish them For what they cannot know or understand They hear his voice And tremble, For he has taught them well To fear what is “good,” And...Read the rest...
Categories: allegory, allusion, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Forgotten
Who are the forgotten? Those hidden in the shadows of others. The poor, The broken, The widows, The orphans, Those not wanted by others, Those that are cast aside, Those overlooked, Some people see the forgotten but rather not. Some see the...Read the rest...
Categories: child abuse, cry, depression,
Form: Free verse

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