beaten down
blackcandy619
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This is a poem I wrote to my daughter to try to explain to her why I stayed when it should have made me leave. I felt grounded to a spot with rubber cement to the bottom of my feet. Everything I had believed- everything I felt in my soul-had been ripped from my soul. A woman beaten and abused is stripped of her strength in a way that is not easily put into words as a poem. I was always the girl that would have told anyone to fuck off before these thing happened to me. Until it's happening to you; It's just empty words to say "just get help and walk away." You just don't know how hard it is to feel your soul ripped down to nothing and you have nowhere to go and no one to ask for help. You just feel like your standing alone. So I stood alone with her asleep inside the house as I watched the snow fall and I thought of these words... stood on a balcony....had nowhere to go....i saw sea gulls fly as it snowed... the juxtapostion in sight... yet can't let go of the weight... i feel behind.... i would never let these arms be empty. Would stay and fight. Even as I felt the scream choked out of me. Pushed aside with all my might. The one whose soul is empty. Weightless love inside. This bond is tied. One day... our will ;i find a way to have flight. We will stand tall as we sing our voices rise. Echo within our souls. Make it loud. Yell it out, we are gone.gone. I thought of these words in this poem over and over again in my head but it took a long time before i was able to write them out! It has taken so long for me to feel safe enough to start writing again. These words in this poem seem so simple to me. Thanks bro you just made it simple for me again. I love ya and i have so much more to say............. 
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