Baseball bat punishment,
words cutting like knives
There were times,
when all I wanted to do,
was lay down and die.
Made to feel stupid,
pathetic and dumb
In time all I learned
to feel was numb.
No one believed.
The truth remained hidden.
Haunted eyes...
Broken spirit...
a life lived in shame.
A loner.
No friends.
Accepting all blame.
Placing the fault
all upon me.
Coming to my bedroom,
lighted only by the moon.
Feeling nothing
but the sense of impending
doom.
Love shouldn't hurt
or cause so much pain.
Begging you, please
Daddy, not again.
The scars still unhealed.
The wounds running deeply.
The broken shell of a person
you see is me.
Author notes
I am having a problem using the pre-write links. They no longer want to work for me anymore. As, I don't want to misrepresent the poem, this is a pre-write. Thanks for reading.
A contest entry
- Enter All Your Abuse Writes Here! (Part III) by xxRainbowDawnxx.
1650 points, ended April 27, 2008, 95 entries
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Comments
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"Begging you, please / Daddy, not again" ~ These lines were heart wrenching. Your plea is strong yet you yourself are feeling weak... All the negativity is getting to the emotions and causing them to spill out openly onto the page. Concrete words with a tear in my eyes. Thanks for your entry.
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