'Broken Child' is an expression of my personal experience, my true thoughts and feelings as an adult, of how being the child of an alcoholic parent, has had an impact on my life.
I've always hated the saying "Time heals all wounds." Maybe in most cases that may be true. In my experience with life and pain however, time has only ever bled out the wound. The scars that the wounds left behind though, are often so deep that just looking at them becomes painful to the mind. Time only heals what you let go of. Sometimes letting go and moving on just doesn't feel possible; no matter how much time you let pass you by.
These poems signify what time hasn't healed for me.