General Poetry posted April 3, 2025


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Sad Girl

Childhood Memories

by Cecilia A Heiskary

Childhood memories
Locked deep inside
Childhood trauma
Keeps them locked away
 
Navy days are a blur
Consumed alcohol
To hide the pain
No memories to share
 
Friends made, I pushed away
Their life goes on
Mine is stuck in the past
A life ruined, because of childhood pain
 
Years of therapy to deal with life
Hasn't helped with the pain
I need to let go of the past
I just can't remember what to let go of
 
I trudge through life
Fighting the pain of the past
I don't know how to move on
Stuck in the past with my trauma
 
Mother didn't believe me
Till the day she died
Thank you, mom, for the support
Because of you I'm numb inside
 
One day I'll be free
I just don't know when
Keep the pain from prying eyes
Put on a happy face for others to see
 
I'll fake it till I make it
The only way I know how
Put on a happy face
For all to see
 



Free Verse Poetry Contest contest entry

Recognized

#12
April
2025


This poem is heartfelt. As many of you know I was sexually assaulted by my mother's boyfriend when I was 10 yrs old. She never believed me and blamed me for the break-up.

To this day I struggle with the memories and the flash backs. They haunt my dreams. I have had many years of therapy because of this trauma, however I have never been able to let it go totally. I have learned to accept the facts of it. It is what it is.

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