unforgiveable

Feels like destiny that you didn’t die

That night when he put his hands around your throat

You and I know what he had in his mind

Somehow you fought back without any help

But he did not finish what he started

Left the room, he turned the guilt on himself

Seems cruel you have dealt with more than most

Feels like he left you in this world alone

But somehow you still stand harder than stone

While still holding etchings of all the scars

After he was covered with death’s blanket

Felt like you had to go back to the start

Yesterday you bravely wrote him a note

To find closure page after page you wrote

Then burned the pages to go up in smoke

I cannot imagine what you seen

How much damage can a heart take before

This vital organ can no longer bleed

And I don’t have answers, but I will say

Please read the following words carefully

I’m glad that on earth you stayed, you matter

You are valued, you deserve better and

Will be loved forever, not just today.

Sometimes my poems are fiction, sometimes they more factual based. This poem is the latter and is about a friend of mine who dealt with unspeakable trauma. I am inspired daily by her courage and bravery and was honored to get the chance to write this. I hope, if she is ever feeling down, she will come back here to read only the last 5 lines of this poem of only to remind herself of the truth.