'Shadows Within' - A collection of poems that screams in silence, weeps in darkness, and bleeds with every word. A raw and unflinching journey through the shattered remains of a soul, where trauma, pain, and vulnerability entwine like a suffocating...
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I thought it was love,
the slaps my father gave my mother, the screams that followed.
I thought it was love, the belt marks on her body, the pain he engraved.
I thought it was love, the way he held her hair, dragged her to his room, forced himself on her.
My mother stood soulless, blank eyes, empty stare. I asked if father loved us, she said, "He loves us so much," with a touch that was motherly, but a heart that was crushed.
I thought that's what love was, pampering in the morning, pain at night.
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