Pain to Action

[VERSE 1]

If possibility is a gift

then experience is a road

how you walk upon it

depends on how your life

unfolds.

[BRIDGE]

Anger

Denial

Blame

[VERSE 2]

Used to be all the same

in my kaleidoscopic brain.

Times spent wondering

if I was going insane

holding myself not as much

accountable but more to blame.

[VERSE 3]

Body autonomy was never

taught to me in school

back in the day

woman were taught to do

as their husbands said and

obey.

[VERSE 4]

Nothing was really ever

wrong with me but something

wrong happened anyway

to make me the Survivor

I am today.

[BRIDGE 2]

Understanding

Acceptance

Growth

[VERSE 5]

Truth unfolds like a blanket

The realization that there

was no true consent

led to years in therapy

Hundreds of hours talking

finally made a dent.

[VERSE 6]

Years have passed,

time moves on

I've stopped singing

the blues - oh woe is me

and completely changed

my tune and my vocabulary.

[VERSE 7]

One doesn't overcome

forgetting the trauma

by burying it deep inside

only by realizing

we're not victims but

people who overcame by

walking tall with pride.

[BRIDGE 3]

Pride

Voice

Hope

[VERSE 8 - CLOSE]

To share words with others

of encouragement

to persevere each day

and never decide to quit

More important than my pain

is what I have done with it.

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Thanks for listening! - Sam

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