What Do You Do?
TW: sexual abuse
Anonymous
What do you do
When the one who is meant to love and protect you
is the one who hurt you the most?
When home is the place you will never feel safe,
Memories forever etched in your mind.
What do you do
When you’ve been covered in stains,
From your head, to your chest and below?
Dirty rags don’t need to be handled with care,
Out from the filth I wish I could grow.
What do you do
When every day is an act,
“Hi dad, would you like some more tea with that?”
A happy family on the surface, but every family has its secrets,
Thin ice we may fall through.
What do you do
When you want to forgive and forget
But you can’t even imagine how?
If acknowledgement is step 1, we are at ground zero;
The slightest move risks it all crashing down.
What do you do
When you’ve been trapped in his box,
Wishing you could erase the past?
Keep trudging along, one foot at a time,
One day, this too shall pass.
