Tag: be their voice
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SISTER ARMOR
My heart breaksMuch to take What to doHeard you Message on voicemailYour cries and tear hail
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BE ANGRY FOR HER
Daughter born into this worldHopes and dreams and fairy tales Her dad, your dad, your uncleYou know what he did to her You tell your sister: not hearing itYou say to her: he’s my dad, that’s it
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DEAR FELLOW SURVIVORS
You are strongIgnore abuser saying your memory is wrong You are starsIgnore abuser making fun of your scars You are brightIgnore abuser stealing your light You are amazingIgnore abuser’s raging
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LOW LIFE MAN
Cannot think of you as humanIf I do, then I will let you hurt me againI thank God I am not like youYou will forever be the same You go right to threatsYou go right to trickeryYou go right to manipulationYou go right to punishment
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PEACE PROTECTION
There is a lot of good out thereReal ones: not false agenda careLove doesn’t hurt: words and handLove listens to understand Don’t let negativity inGive it back and tell themThis message I don’t receiveWill no longer be deceived
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CRUMBLED UP PAPER
Pulled with a fierce shookOut of the spiral notebookTore the fringes off your sideUnworthiness implied Writing on you so hardTheir hurtful imprint wordsSeen now: wooden table topFrustrations on you: won’t stop
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FIGHTER CREW
There are pictures in my mindOf things done to meI hear the words of unkindOf things said to me No more, the fighter in me criesI am worthy. I am enoughI matter. I will survive and thriveReclaimed power. I am enough
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THRIVER PERMISSION SLIP
Woke up this morning the same wayReady to live: but those feelings stay Feelings of feeling lessFeelings: not like the rest Years of life: survivingWaking up now: thriving Except something stops meI’m afraid of feeling free
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KNOCK IT OFF: GAME OVER
Who do you think you areHurting, controlling, threateningDestroyer in a jarScaring, manipulating Your words no longer matterNot picking up the gameYour hurtful words splatterOf your cruelty soul shame
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PAJAMAS SUFFERING
This time of yearWarmer weatherDisgust and fearAssaulted her Can’t let him winGet it out: writePatriarch sinHer flashback fight
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WHAT IS GOING ON
I feel sadI am not mad What is going onWe have heard this for so long Is this a lieSaid straight to the eye
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BIRDS OF PREY
We sitBird-wing clippedSubmitUnequipped Years of hurtsHave taken their tollYears of threatsNo longer feel whole
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SHATTERED VISION
Want to believeWith all beingWhat I perceiveNo deceiving Past betrayalsHeart soul hurtsFake portrayalsLove departs
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WHERE IS MY COWBOY
Strong and independent is what I strive.But there’s a part of me that attracts a certain kind.It is the ones who don’t love me completely.I have begun, to wonder, is it me? Never had a man in my life who just chose me.My dad, my protector did something to me in his bedroom when I…
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DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE
I know I am not the only oneThis is what I seePeople around me under the sunLiving: are they free? Since I was a child of a young ageI saw injustice and hurtsI felt people’s pain and hidden rageSpirits low: truths needing to burst
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