healing after abuse
Poems about reclaiming identity, safety, voice, and a future after abuse.
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A poem about refusing to become another trophy in someone else’s pattern of harm.
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A poem about recognizing a pattern after hearing the same story from other survivors.
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The livestream ended in minutes, but the violation lasted much longer; healing begins when her body stops being treated like a crime scene.
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She was not waiting for him to become someone new; she was waiting for the sober man she had already loved to come back and stay.
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An us-against-the-world love story changes shape when she realizes the person beside her is the one she needs protection from.
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A song once promised the ordinary miracle of growing old together; survival rewrites that future so the children can still grow, just without him.
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The wall keeps the mark even when memory tries to minimize it: something sharp crossed the room, and someone was standing there.
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He always missed, but survival eventually stops treating bad aim as mercy and names the violence for what it was.
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A body learns to brace for impact even without touch when rage is close enough to feel on the skin.
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A poem about learning that even simple questions could become conflict.
