Domestic Abuse
Writing about abuse, survival, control, fear, aftermath, and the difficult process of naming what happened without letting it become the whole story.
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An estranged daughter writes to the father who taught her that love could sound like shouting and home could become something to escape.
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At five years old, foster care becomes the day the world changes shape and a little girl learns adults do not always know where children belong.
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A poem about being accused of playing games when the relationship had always been painfully real.
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An ordinary coffee with a friend becomes evidence of how easily someone else can mistake independence for abandonment.
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The anger aimed at her was never really hers; it was pain from somewhere else repeatedly placed in her hands.
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Apologies can sound beautiful, but actions are the language that finally tells the truth.
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Soft words and beautiful apologies keep returning, but forgiveness begins to change when the same wounds keep following them.
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An earliest memory begins not with birthday cake or summer grass, but with sirens, fear, and a family already learning how quickly safety can disappear.
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A poem about learning that even simple questions could become conflict.
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A Grade 1 note about pieces of chalk becomes a record of a child trying to describe fear with the limited vocabulary school had given him.
