I’ve tried to write the words, <br />Surely something to say, <br />For the way you’ve treated me, <br />How we ended it that day. <br /> <br />It matters not how we met, <br />What matters is what we felt, <br />Was it really genuine? <br />I touch the swollen welts. <br /> <br />I trusted you with things, <br />That I never told another soul, <br />Things that hurt and scarred me, <br />That you’d keep till we grew old. <br /> <br />The betrayal you bestowed upon me, <br />Minimizing, laughing at my pain, <br />All my secrets now exposed, <br />Make me think that I’m insane. <br /> <br />It matters not what you did to me, <br />These scars will one day heal, <br />Our son is another story, <br />What is he supposed to feel? <br /> <br />Betrayed, broken, sided and torn, <br />To a loyalty that shouldn’t exist, <br />All the lessons that we taught him, <br />That no one should use their fists! <br /> <br />I owe him a thousand apologies, <br />For the truth I couldn't see, <br />That you were not genuine, <br />Not to him and not to me. <br /> <br />Thank you for the lesson, <br />Not just mine alone, <br />Now a new journey begins, <br />That we can call our own.<br /><br />Living Experience<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/betrayed-violence-against-women-and-children/
