My churning feelings about horrid abusers, and horrors they weave in their wake, came out many years ago in a 6-page poem on child abuse.
Someone dear to me, I met in my 20s, was sexually abused as a child. It destroyed her life. 50 years later, she still attends mental health clinics. So I wrote about her life, to rid me of the empathy I shared with her suffering.
There's no sex, no violence in the poem - just allusion. But the allusions often affect people deeply. Here's one...
Dear Allan
Your poem "The Dread Tread" (in your book "Life's a Load of Bananas") had such an effect on me that I haven't been able to sleep. And so I wrote this.
It's not nearly as good as yours but I wanted to get this off my chest.
Not sure about the last bit though but sending it to you anyway.
Lots of LOve
Jenny
A Poem is written for purpose
to express both beauty and beast
to feel the soft snow in the winter
to express sad feelings so deep.
Some of these poems reach out
mostly with tidings of joy
but some that are written of sadness
bring grieving for that girl or that boy.
Grief for the death of a childhood
this feeling of terrible loss
when you read of things that are buried
long gone but are never forgot.
Of a child alone in her room at night
so frightened she don't want to breath
'cause she hears a footstep outside
and knows sadly just what it means.
Do they know what they've done to children
all the sadness and pain that they cause
that is carried alone for years after
'cause they can't ask for help any more.
Please all of us now must do something
stop this inhuman disgusting blight
that's eating away the souls of our kids -
please help us to switch on the light.
We must tell these terrible people
who cause such suffering and pain
not to hurt God's innocent children
they really should be so ashamed.
God watches souls of small children
he helps them react or feel safe.
But watch out you killers of childhood
for he's watching you too, are you safe?
Jenny
NB.
"Life's a Load of Bananas" contains 10 sections, with 7 poems in each section.
(Mystical, Heavenly, Dying, Romantic, Philosophical, Cryptic, Abused, Humorous, Child's, Lover's.)
Created to make you laugh, cry, or think...
I hope the above reader's poem makes you cry or think...
Someone dear to me, I met in my 20s, was sexually abused as a child. It destroyed her life. 50 years later, she still attends mental health clinics. So I wrote about her life, to rid me of the empathy I shared with her suffering.
There's no sex, no violence in the poem - just allusion. But the allusions often affect people deeply. Here's one...
Dear Allan
Your poem "The Dread Tread" (in your book "Life's a Load of Bananas") had such an effect on me that I haven't been able to sleep. And so I wrote this.
It's not nearly as good as yours but I wanted to get this off my chest.
Not sure about the last bit though but sending it to you anyway.
Lots of LOve
Jenny
A Poem is written for purpose
to express both beauty and beast
to feel the soft snow in the winter
to express sad feelings so deep.
Some of these poems reach out
mostly with tidings of joy
but some that are written of sadness
bring grieving for that girl or that boy.
Grief for the death of a childhood
this feeling of terrible loss
when you read of things that are buried
long gone but are never forgot.
Of a child alone in her room at night
so frightened she don't want to breath
'cause she hears a footstep outside
and knows sadly just what it means.
Do they know what they've done to children
all the sadness and pain that they cause
that is carried alone for years after
'cause they can't ask for help any more.
Please all of us now must do something
stop this inhuman disgusting blight
that's eating away the souls of our kids -
please help us to switch on the light.
We must tell these terrible people
who cause such suffering and pain
not to hurt God's innocent children
they really should be so ashamed.
God watches souls of small children
he helps them react or feel safe.
But watch out you killers of childhood
for he's watching you too, are you safe?
Jenny
NB.
"Life's a Load of Bananas" contains 10 sections, with 7 poems in each section.
(Mystical, Heavenly, Dying, Romantic, Philosophical, Cryptic, Abused, Humorous, Child's, Lover's.)
Created to make you laugh, cry, or think...
I hope the above reader's poem makes you cry or think...
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