Forgiveness Child Abuse Poems

(Lights dim, single spotlight illuminates the speaker, dressed in simple attire. Voice starts trembling, building in intensity)

Can forgiveness mend, a childhood, 
fractured in the dark?...

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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...

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Tun nay haq mehar dena ya nahi?
Mein teray khilaf qarwai karun ga.
Note.Kharcha pani kon day ga ict?...

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I WAS ABUSED BY MY MOTHER AND HER BOYFRIEND AT THE AGE OF THIRTEEN, THIS POEM REFLECTS THOSE HARDEST MOMENTS FOR ME. THEY RAN OFF...

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What if the incessant torture didn’t happen
so many dark times, but it’s unimaginable
for you to comprehend isn’t it?

No one knows, the tragedies that left me
so...

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A sleepover 
Hooray
My sister and I
We pack light
a small bag each

It's been 3 days
I am out of fresh clothes
I miss my toys
Can I go back...

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Blind who thinks to see
What do you want? 
When I show you love in my  right hand 
And showing the truth in my left hand...

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Please

Please don't cry. 
Please don't cry anymore. 
In my memory I can still hear you. 
I can never forget. 
My heart will always hurt inside,...

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Agonizing darkness descends upon my hopelessness.
Crouching in a fetal position as terrifying pain infests.
Oh the slashing, bashing of the wielding belt.
Crying and scampering, knowing his...

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I entered the ward in clerical attire,
my presence setting a young patient on fire
with fury. “You preachers who teach us about
forgiveness from God,” as she...

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a Little boy clenched in the turbulence that was his past.
He went missing in that moment with his eyes wide open.
Like a moth with his...

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Everything you did to me
Is already done to you
What a weak man it takes to rape
You can never take my essence
In fact your muddy mutters...

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Before the fog of trauma I saw pearly gates
Ajar with festivities of joy and laughter
I remember frozen moment in time
Brazen forbidden touch, my mind unguarded.

The...

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She was just a girl yet hurting so;
In a school where he worked;
She was full of fear and doubt;
So scared to try to figure it...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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