Long Physical abuse Poems

I was born to be a survivor and a fighter.
That's why I became a writer.
As a child the physical abuse I endured.
Being a baby it was pretty absurd.

The child of recovering addicts.
Even one that still...

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Molested the first fifteen years of my life. My mother remained silent the whole time. As the molesting continued all those years. Forced to live a pretend life all my childhood. Beaten and punished every...

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* CONTENT WARNING: This poem is about physical abuse. *

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eyes, down ...

at my yellow polo,
red spatters
so evenly placed that
they look unnatural -
as if printed,
but unfinished ... incomplete …
yeah ...
blood, but...

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NO 
Where do you start with suicide
I`ve been struggling with what to say,
But no one in society is immune from this
The numbers rise each day.

You can sit back and think it will never be me
It...

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Melanie, my Dear Child .

I am sorry Melanie, oh so sorry that this early morning
has brought strife, such a nightmare into our home, our life.
Your life, my Dear, is far too important, far too precious
to...

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Why is the forgiveness of Jesus Christ sufficient for us? Because when Jesus Christ first cleanses our sins and forgives us of all of our unrighteous! It is sufficient enough that He has forgiven us!...

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It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode

You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it shows
In what you say
In what you write
The sarcasm hidden under...

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The Narcissist In Our House

There is a person with narcissistic personality disorder
In our house.  This fellow is loved by some who want
To keep him where he is.
How do we know he suffers from this...

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where one fist is thrown 
another will see the knuckles displayed &
with each connection the rage from one
primate to the next comes spiraling downward---
there is a visceral reaction that brings the 
onlooker back & if...

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The Wounded Heart
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I bare the child of this world yet I am tossed to rot away,
I've given you all that I can give and in return you don't even know my name,
Stop the plundering, stop the looting,...

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Though many have lost the battle, can I go forward in a worthy pursuit?
For those whose pursuit of chastity in marriage grinds to an unhappy halt,
could it not be due in part to being pulled...

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Pain as a Hobby Parts I-IX
Written by Tavarus M. Moreland
Copyright 2010. All rights reserved

Sorry Yulli, it was little unfair to suggest the title
You’re only 23 but I promise to leave room
Heck by that time, I...

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It must be hard
To carry it around
That load of hate
Weighing on your heart
A powder keg
Waiting to explode
Hurting others but
Killing your own soul

You pretend it isn’t there
But now and again it shows
In what you say
In what...

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I have stared death in the face
with its huge gaping jaws
most of my life 
i have evaded those paws

My families crazy made up scheme
of overdramatizing my diagnosis
made my life a paralysing psychosis

I freed myself from...

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This morning a gust of wind snuck up behind me without making a sound…
nudged me a little forward and knocked my hat onto the ground.

It might have been my imagination but I think I heard...

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Abuse comes in many forms and mentally stages
I may say it's mentally strange......
Victims abuse may not know....How to feel or tell
Some think there the crazy one...The one in the wrong....
Some live with it every second...

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Child abuse is more than bruises, 
While physical abuse is shocking 
Due to the scars it leaves, 
Not all child abuse is as obvious. 
Ignoring children's needs, 
Putting them in unsupervised, 
Dangerous situations, or 
Making...

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Called away to another city very much like my own
Denver, Colorado
Walked the streets and talked to the least of these 
Offered them hope in the Lord
Many nestled up against doorways sipping on gin and hitting...

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Let's start with way back several years ago
When I was still young and naïve

I believed I was in love 
But how wrong I was 
Because all I really was was used. 

He had golden hair...

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A Broken Relationship

Soft tears rolled down her cheeks
as she rolled over to face his back,
for she knew in her heart so deep that
a love for her he did lack.

She had felt the relationship break
with the...

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A deep, dark kindred spider looms to proffer the sentiment, 
That abuse just objectifies the long persistent winter:  
Scouring around playfully, but embedded in the night - 
Two way of seeing it but only...

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DON’T TOUCH ME
MEANS MORE THAN WHAT IT SEEMS
DON’T TOUCH ME 
COMES FROM A WOMAN WHO'S BEEN 
HURT
DON’T TOUCH ME 
COMES FROM A WOMAN WHO'S BEEN 
LIED TO AND PUSHED INTO THE DIRT
I REFUSE TO PRETEND...

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People say its puppy love that we are showing.
I think its fully grown and keeps on growing.
I love her so much it hurts to be apart.
In the mornings when I see her, that's when my...

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For years I've watched the dark cloud, it's followed me wherever I go.
With tears my silence seems so loud, and darkness swallows my rising rainbow!
The demons I've tirelessly fought keep coming back to haunt me.
And...

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