It wasn’t just the physical abuse and emotional neglectMy innocence was just another thing to collectSick adults creating sick childrenSick individuals harming their own brethrenThere is no justice for a stolen childhoodThere is only pain and survival into adulthoodChildren should be preciousAllowed to be precociousHave the freedom to learn from their mistakesNever wallow in their […]
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Restoration by CallmeKey15
Wow! What a powerful testament to what it means to be a child sexual abuse survivor, look your abuse in the face, and choose to know that you are worthy, you are special and you are loved! Enjoy this great faith-based spoken word performance from a child sexual abuse survivor. Thank you to this lovely […]
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Silent Screams by OneOutOf6
The world in which I existed left me warped and twisted, broken, and scared, words left unspoken cause it’s hard to cope with the past, alcohol wears off and the dope don’t last. I was that quiet child with tears in his eye, and fears in his heart with the deafening silence tearing him apart. When […]
Continue ReadingChild In Me by Jennene Obremski
I had to touch her heartThe child in meHer whole world ripped apartThe child in meTo find her buried under my tearsThe child in meTo help her face her fearsThe child in meNow she shines from withinThe child in meEvery obstacle she will battle and winThe child in meI had to really look at herThe […]
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The Forgotten Children by Mary Graziano
I wrote this poem back in 2014. As a survivor of child abuse, I wanted to reach out to others. My friend George Robinson put together this song of my work. I met him at his Healing through Creativity festival in West Virginia which I have attended for about 4 years, and have sung this song […]
Continue ReadingEasy to Judge by OneOutOf6
*Rated: Adult Language What I wrote when a guy online said he was glad it happened to me: It’s easy to judge and hard to relate, I’m hard to love and so easy to hate, hard to defend, easy to be attacked, I’m too busy defending to even attack back. I come here so I […]
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Amends to Self by Debra
This piece came about during a 9th step (amends) process in recovery. My sponsor said that before anyone else, I needed to make an amends to myself, noting any way in which I had harmed myself physically, emotionally, spiritually, etc. The abuse was in no way intended to be part of it, but it is […]
Continue ReadingRainbow by Jennene Obremski
I was raped when I was 15 and 4 months later he raped me again causing a miscarriage of my unknown pregnancy by him. This poem is about the loss of my baby and innocence. Send me back my rainbowThat you killed so long agoI’ve wondered about it all these yearsStill bringing up fresh tearsI […]
Continue ReadingA Stray, Wet Cat by Roxie Stricker
Could she have done something? It’s too late now to tell. Too late to go back. She’s gone forward, for sure. More than most. But she still feels it. Fear can’t seem to escape her coursing bloodstream. She wants someone to hold her. To protect her. She is but a cold stray cat who has […]
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