Poem – Shades of Love
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A poem on emotional and physical abuse
We are staying together he promised
Even as your hair turns the shade of grey,
Cause you are my diamond, unpolished,
And I will shape you as I may.
I am his jewel, I beamed,
And he will be by me till eternity,
A better person he would make me
And I couldn’t have asked for a better destiny.
I looked on as he stripped me bare
Of all, that was me,
I put on the clothes he bought and the smile he taught
And this, he said, was why he adored me.
He shared with me his darkest fears,
And the pain inflicted by all.
Believing it to be the truth,
I promised to catch him if ever he were to fall.
I walked his walk and talked his talk,
As I wouldn’t dare be a disgrace.
Words of love became far and few,
Only scars on my skin I could trace.
I crouched in the darkest corner of the room,
As I got the whiff of cigarette and beer;
I felt a shudder run down my spine,
As I saw him appear.
I stood silently as my clothes he ripped apart
And threw me out the door,
This was my punishment I knew,
For he felt I had acted like a whore.
As the night faded he would come to me,
Whispering words sweet as honey,
He would then carry me in like a baby
Reminding me never to disagree.
As months turned into years
It suddenly dawned on me,
That my life was no paradise
And I had fooled not just me, but everybody.
My worth i let be defined by him,
I was a nobody, he had ingrained from the start,
It was not just my heart he broke,
But my soul he had ripped apart.
Finally, Unshackled and free I search for my dignity,
But as i lay alone at night I fall apart at the seam.
And as I succumb to the darkness inside,
I let out a silent scream.
His memories still haunt me,
His words still echo in my brain,
“We are staying together he had promised,
You are not getting away from me, never again.”
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