She Was Just A Child

This so sad and makes me feel deeply 💔 It's one of the reasons I don't want to bring children into the world - you never know what happens to them and by who, and how you could protect them. My heart goes out for you

Well done on this story⭐️⭐️⭐️

Brought tears. Let’s protect our kids, until they can protect themselves.

As young as four years old 💔 Then at 10 the hell was only beginning. Wow, I feel everything she felt, and it’s a tragedy… the feeling from it never ends. I love this for your poetic talent, but my heart cries for her. A masterpiece indeed 👏🏽👌🏽♥️🤗

Heartbreaking and all too common. What does this say about the societies we live in? *SIGH*

They are the victims of our folly, unfortunately. :-( Well done, Dhar.

So sad of a poem but so true for some living in trauma. Good poem that tells such truth

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I'm sure you said somewhere you don't write poems. What the heck? You bloody do. Sad and moving.

Yes! Heartbreaking and sad! I had EMDR to help me with a pedophile experience. Thankfully my brother and I both told and we never saw him again, that I know of. A cousin to my dad. I had uncles with a sugar shack always introducing women as our aunties. My mother shut that shack down. It was her brothers. She had it torn down. 😉 That trauma and more. It adds up and it is easy to self medicate with drugs and alcohol.Thankfully, there is help!

Adults should have protected you. That was their job. You were an innocent child. The fact that no one protected you from a pedophile leaves you feeling alone and frightened, like you can't trust anyone, and those wounds stay open for a very long time. I'm sorry, my friend.

Hugs. I know hugs aren't sufficient; my heart aches and goes out to you. Powerful poem, very cathartic.

Too often too true. Simply and powerfully written.💙Anneliese

heartbreakingly beautiful

The picture on this post immediately grabbed my attention. Then to read the story poem itself.. This actually - and unfortunately - resonates powerfully with me as my beloved wife of 38 years went through the exact type of horrible abuse for 10 YEARS of her childhood at the hands of those whom she should have been able to trust. We now have a court case against several counties in New York based on it. Thankfully those pedophiles that did this to her are all decease... but the state system failed both her and her twin sister totally all those years back.

This is so sad and beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

Dharrsheena, this was heartbreaking and yet so beautiful! You did a wonderful job sending the message that actions have a ripple effect and sometimes others suffer for your actions. I have so much empathy for this that this is a reality for, this was a breath taking tribute to those who know this pain. 💜

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Well done!!! Sending hugs!!!💖💖💕

Wow, very touching, very sad, so well written.

Blunt and effective. Childhood trauma is pretty much universal to one degree or another, but no question some are worse than others. Despite prison reforms it's hard not to wish that all pedophiles be entered into the general population so the parents 'in there' can deal with him or her.

As a mother, that was a gut punch to read. We've been through our own trauma and a part of me has died these last few years watching as the unspeakable violence we experienced in one night has manifested so differently in all of my kids. I'm so sorry for the terror and torture you endured as a child who needed protection and did not get it. My heart goes out to you! I can only imagine how difficult that is not only to deal with personally, but to also share publicly. Thank you for sharing and raising awareness.

very courageous to share.

Going back in time would be so good because I would change lots of things. A sad poem and beautifully sentimental for a lot of people.

Sorry you had to go through that and that life is rough as guts at times. Hope you are healing and commend you for your courage! :)