This is a story which entails some of the events of my life
 A life of struggles, struggles and strife
 As a child, the memories are filled with hurt and pain
 Things went wrong again and again,
 Beatings and violence through a little girls eyes
 A family full of conflict, secrets and lies
 Invasion in so many ways, none of which a child should know
 Preventing me from being happy, preventing me to grow
 Many an accident I had in my school years,
 Unable to control my bladder, always in tears.
 Scared, petrified, unable to speak
 A life so strong, but a child so weak.
 Bullied by the other kids in my class,
 I felt like a broken cracked glass
 Cut and shattered in so many places
 Bound together by invisible weak laces
 From a very young age I found a way to cope,
 But this painful self-destruction gave me little hope
 Raped at 10, violated by blood.
 Everything was always bad, nothing ever good
 Emotional psychological verbal abuse,
 I tried to run away but it was no use,
 There was no escaping these demons skulking around,
 No hope, no peace ever to be found
 Neglect abandonment, torture and pain
 Beaten and abused, again and again
 Physical abuse and sexual too,
 Is only a word of what I went through
 Through high school, things remained the same
 Again and again I suffered the same
 Though now I hurt myself more than they hurt me
 Starvation, self-mutilation but it wasn't easy
 My world became a huge mess as people found out,
 I couldn't even whisper that I wanted to shout
 Ended up in a psych ward for kids and teens
 Weeks turned to months in an NHS routine
 Upon my discharge, I tried to make things better
 But life may as well have given me a 'failure' letter
 An injury, an illness, a bereavement too
 Again only a fraction of what I went through
 Moved up and down the country to try find a way
 But there wasn't one peaceful safe place to stay
 Another bereavement a best friend gone
 I ended up getting more withdrawn
 Family lost, in their pathways of lies
 Undisguised by their truth-telling eyes
 The hungry deceit left a trail of their mistakes
 Causing nothing but misery and heartache
 Still I carried on, and moved away again
 Things turned around for me but no end to this pain
 Raped again at 21 by a man I thought to be a friend
 A liar and a bastard is all he was in the end
 How much more can I take, I don't even know
 Is there any further that I can even go?