Member Poem

TAKEN/A TRUE STORY

THE LIGHTS GO OUT..... 
THE ROOM IS DARK...ALL 
 I CAN HEAR IS MY BEATING 
HEART...IT RACES FASTER AND FASTER... 
 THE FEAR IS BACK.... 
THE CONTROLLING MASTER... 
 I FIGHT SO HARD TO SLOW IT DOWN... 
HAVING NO CONTROL I AM BOUND... 
 TAKES WHAT HE WANTS..... 
MY BODY'S BEEN FOUND.... 
 SETS AND LAUGHS AS HE TAUNTS.... 
MY MEMORIES HE FOREVER HAUNTS.... 
 THE HAND THAT WONDERS TO DISTANT 
PLACES....AS HE HOLDS HIS DECEITFUL 
 FACES.... 
    HIS PLAY TIME WAS HERE... 
THE MAN I MOST FEARED...THROUGH 
 ALL MY CHILDHOOD YEARS..... 
HE TOOK WHAT WAS MINE... 
 MY INNOCENCE,I CAN'T NO LONGER FIND..
OVER AND OVER EVERY DAY AND NIGHT... 
 SCARED TO DEATH TO PUT UP A FIGHT... 
WORDS HE SPOKE IN MY EAR, THREATS ON
 MY FAMILY, I HOLD SO DEAR... 
SCARED TO SLEEP SO I STAY AWAKE... 
 HOW MUCH MORE CAN AN 8 YEAR OLD TAKE..? 
ANOTHER NIGHT....AN OLDER AGE...MY HEART, 
 BODY,MIND, AND SOUL FULL OF RAGE.... 
13 CAME FASTER THAN HELL...OPENED A 
 DOOR CAME OUT OF MY SHELL.... 
FIGHTING FOR WHAT WAS ONCE MINE, ONCE TAKE 
 AND NOW CAN'T FIND,... 
TAKEN WHEN I WAS 4, WILL LIVE THIS 
 NIGHTMARE NO MORE... 
THE MONSTER IS GONE,NOW THAT I'VE GROWN 
 FOUND A WAY AND LEFT HOME.... 
MEMORIES REMAIN, THE FEAR STILL SHOWN.... 
 NEVER FOUND WHAT I LOST...SEARCHED 
AT ALL COSTS... 
 TURNED TO DRUGS TO HIDE THE PAIN.... 
TO LIVE IN A WORLD WITH NOTHING TO 
 GAIN....... 
38 YEARS OLD IT'S STILL NOT FOUND... 
 MY INNOCENCE THAT WAS TAKEN..TIED 
UP AND BOUND.... 
 IN THE END IT WASN'T MY FAULT THIS 
I FOUND.... 
 GREW STRONGER IN THE MIND SO THAT 
I COULD MOVE ON.... 
 ALL OF MY FEAR IS FINELY GONE!!!!!!!!