From the bottom of my heart

silence means consent

"Why did you disobey me?!

Make sure you do as I say!"

Commands, threats, accusations

batter your bruised blue-black skin 

hammer your mind and your heart

strike you and cause you to fall

to your knees in surrender 

screaming, screaming help help help

but not a sound exits this

mouth or throat, but oozes out

as blood from a bleeding heart 

because of the violence that 

batter your bruised blue-black skin

hammer your mind and your heart

strike you and cause you to fall

to your knees in surrender

screaming, screaming-

You must not ever ever relent

or give up your fighting spirit!

For he who does, is doomed to an eternity

of the savagery that 

batter his bruised blue-black skin

hammer his mind and his heart

strike him and cause him to fall

to his knees in surrender 

with more of where that came from

still awaiting him.

And, if he then should dare to lose hope 

and concede defeat to live 

in suffering, enslaved 

to the violence that 

batter, hammer and strike him- 

he then remains silent. 

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this is an important note: This poem isn't about me or anything. I'm not suffering from child abuse. Sorry if this worried you!