Flooding back into my mind
Memories I never wanted to find
Nightmares I tried so hard to forget
Fears so old they no longer upset
Trying to find the words to explain
Someone so young feeling such pain
No reason to see the things that she saw
No reason to know the things at her core
No way to understand the things that she dreamt
But to accept that must be the way she's sent
Lock them back up child and throw away the key
These are images you should never see
Turmoil and torture corrupting your mind
Ideas that will beat you and words that will bind
Run from the images, run from the pains
One day these memories will bring you gains
But for now you're too young to understand what you know
So pick up the pieces of your sanity and go
Run as far and as fast as you can
Forget the dreams that turn you against man
Author notes
I wrote this when I began to remember some supressed memories I had. I wanted them gone again, I didn't want to see them
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It's an awesome poem. Sometimes we just have to take our experiences into stride instead of always pushing them away. I know how hard it seems with something like that. I of course don't know exactly what happened to you, but I get the jist, and I'm probably suggesting something way too much.
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A bittersweet expression of abuse and childhood memories. Terribly sad what you've penned here, but I do not think you'd be the only one with thoughts like these.
A tip with rhyme: keeping syllable counts the same in adjacent lines makes it flow smoother.
Thanks for entering.
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I came here to return the favour - picked a poem at random - this is well writen - the rhyme and flow are great - memories are hard to supress - perhaps forgiveness would be in order - you put this poem nicley together - right from the heart - Bless God - Joe
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i wish they were harder to supress, because i managed to supress a lot of them. i dont know why or how...
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bravo!
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Never mind, the site knew I read your poem by the quick comment :)) Haha. You don't have to remove your abuse category or your poem, after all. :)
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Hi :) Right now, I'm quick commenting because one of your categories is abuse, and for some reason AllPoetry won't let me read those. In order to judge this contest, I'm going to have to read this in page form. So I ask you to please either remove the abuse category, or remove your poem. (I know, very mean of me to ask you to do that :( but it needs to be done.) As for the poem, very good! It has a lot of deep emotion.
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wow really good! I enjoyed reading this piece! Thank you so much for entering! Excellent work and the best of luck in my contest!!!
-Steve-
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