Time heals they tell me
Heals all wounds
Just you wait and see
They lied.
It has been years
Feels like only moments
Days didn't calm my fears
Neither did the months
Tomorrow is a fresh new day
But every moment is tainted
My mind lives in yesterday
Every moment in the past
Before you I was a white lily
Now I am an empty husk
I am told I am silly
Not to have moved on
It is easy to hate you
Forgetting you is the hard part
Tears shed have not been few
Too numerous to count
I had dreams once
Now I wish for death
Sweet dreams are no more
All I have are nightmares
You always spoke of love
You meant lust and hate
I was innocent as a dove
Now I am jaded and afraid
You took a child's body
Treated it like a woman's
Taught what you did was naughty
I thought I was bad
Told the fault was mine
I believed I was dirty
As a child I fell for your line
As an adult I still feel ashamed
My body remembers all you did
Every caress, every punch
My mind remembers how I hid
But you always found me
Every single violation
Hurt my very soul
I was your secret temptation
I was only a child
You made me cry
You made me bleed
You made me die
Every time you touched me
What did you think
Comments
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Extraordinarily sad and powerful. Your pain oozes from this. There's a beautiful rhythm to this.. I couldn't stop reading!
I'm sorry that you've been through this. Thank you for sharing.
As inappropriate as they seem for this poem, clappy dudes.
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Very emotionally expressive, the ending was great, it sumed it all and made me even more sad than I've been through the whole poem.
Each part held its own dependant feeling and it was very well written.
My favorite lines probably are:
"You took a child's body
Treated it like a woman's
Taught what you did was naughty
I thought I was bad"
and:
"It is easy to hate you
Forgetting you is the hard part
Tears shed have not been few
Too numerous to count"
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Very sad, emotional, powerful..
This piece was very well written and I could feel the pain that came with each stanza.. I could relate to this, I only recently had the courage to put mine to paper and post it here. Excellent write and lots of courage to get it down, even more to share it with everyone here at AP. Kudos!
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Holy ----
I love the word Tainted. (I've written a poem called tainted, and I kinda thing it's about the same topic.)
Favourite stanza?
Time heals they tell me
Heals all wounds
Just you wait and see
They lied.
I was thinking only this morning that the past should be the past, and although it's happened, you just need to let go, and walk away.
Yet, why is that simple logic so damned hard to follow??
As for the poem itself, it's a great write.
You can feel the never ending pain emanate from the page.
And I feel for you.
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