Many people, be it survivors or sufferers of child abuse, verbalise their emotion in poetry. This isn’t a recent development but something that has happened throughout the centuries. Shakespeare expressed his emotions through his writing, Robbie Williams even expresses his emotions in his songs and love is often expressed in the form of poetry. In this section I wanted to offer people the to express their emotions in poetry.

I have written many poems in my time about the abuse and how I was feeling a lot of which can be found at The Foundation of Survivors and this is just one of my poems expressing my emotions in poetry:-

Pain

You tied me to a radiator, You tied me to the bed,
You only gave me water when you lifted my dying head.

You locked me in the bathroom, the window was so small,
I couldn’t crawl out of it as my body was too sore.

You hurt me everytime you tortured me, I tried so hard not to cry,
You came and gave me agony, the feeling that I should die.

Now that I am seeking and crying for help there is nothing you can do,
The fear, the pain, the suffering will all be left to me.

I was lucky enough to be in a position to express many of my emotions, thoughts and feelings when I made the decision to write Cry Silent Tears and it is a journey I am continuing on whilst writing the second book.

If you have a written a poem or have tried to express any kind of emotions in poetry then feel free to leave a comment with your poem.

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