Home, Sweet, Home

domestic violence/abuse

Have lived

Through the worse

One can experience

In a civil war

And survive

To talk about it.

 

Where every word

Or action

Becomes a cruise missile

Fired at you.

 

Targeted

For max damage.

 

Poisoning the soul

With toxic bio-chemicals

As you watch

Your emotions die

Before you.

 

Manipulative usage

Of formulation

Making the body pliable

While covering it

In cuts and bruises.

 

Becoming a displaced person

Fleeing from one refuge

To another

Within one's mind

To make it

Through the day.

 

Thanks frakking a lot

Mom and M.

For my teenage years.

Author's Note

Originally written, August 24, 2014.