healing after abuse
Poems about reclaiming identity, safety, voice, and a future after abuse.
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I have said it softly, with patience I no longer recognize as my own. I have said it through tears, through exhaustion, through the trembling hands of a woman who has spent too many years explaining why she deserves to breathe. I have said it angry, with words sharpened against the bones of every boundary…
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I have spent too many nights being the oxygen in someone else’s lungs, breathing life into men who only ever noticed my exhaustion when I stopped answering. My phone has become another child crying in the dark, another mouth demanding something from me, another set of hands reaching for pieces I no longer have to…
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Being irreplaceable is not about who came before or after; it is about knowing a person was never a replacement part to begin with.
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A poem about the moment the ground felt safer than the room behind you.
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A poem about leaving a house, a relationship, and the pieces of a life that could not come with you.
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A poem about the heartbreak of apologizing for the people who made you a mother.
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A poem about how an ordinary question became another argument you never meant to start.
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A poem about learning that harm does not always return wearing the same face.
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A poem about surviving one fire and realizing the next danger wore a different face.
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A poem about belongings, disposability, and the deeper wound of being made to feel replaceable.
