Never Again

Thanks to Sydney Sims @fairytailphotography for making this photo available freely on Unsplash 🎁

*This isn't my story, thank God, but its someones reality, so I write…

Words of hate
Belittled humiliated
Hatred seeps through
Every pore
His love had
Been a masquerade
A game played never
Real
Never again
Would his words
Shatter a broken ego.

A fist
A bruise
A dream shattered
Happily ever after
Ended in pain.
Never again
Would she fall
For false truths
Empty lies.

He used his
Words his perceived
Power
To break her
Down
Destroy her worth
Never again
Would she give
Him
That power.

She found her
Voice
Found her freedom
Spoke out
Spoke up
Never again
Would she be
A victim
Of his abuse.