Child Abuse and its after effects

Your abusers give you the feeling of worthlessness

Your confidence becomes less and less

Until you start to believe you deserve it

You sink into that bottomless pit

Every part of your life becomes black

Is there a way out or can you really track back

A return to innocence is lost

But at what ultimate cost

You live your life on the edge

Between you and a happy life; forever a wedge

What did you do to deserve this shame?

Stop!!!  you are not really to blame

Someone else took your life and gave you pain

That’s why you feel your life has gone down the drain

Getting close to people leads to pain

So alone now I journey on my slow train

A Rose

The bud shows it’s a peek of bright scarlet red

It knows for its beauty it has been bred

Promise of soft petals to open beyond compare

Its needs sun and rain for more to bare

Opening slowly it unfurls its glorious scarlet dress

None can deny it will in evidently impress

Soft petals open and curl back like silk and satin

It holds the crown of horticulture within

It will eventually fade its bright satin dress

But never to look an untidy mess

Even with age beauty cannot be stopped ; it will still last

Standing tall and true till each petal ultimately falls past