You stole me aside
Retching me from my childhood
                                       My innocence
                                          My wellbeing

You said I was a masterpiece
Whispered sweet nothings
That shook me to my core
And melted my frozen heart

I thought you would always treat me right
Hold my hand tight
Never stray from my side

By god was I wrong

At first sight of your wickedness, I should have ran
But I was blinded by your grace
By your spellbinding words
By the promises you made

You tore me apart completely
Made me feel worthless
Like no one loved me
Like no one else was here for me
Except for you

You made me despise myself
I’d wake in the morning to see bruises you left from the day before
And puffy eyes from the hours I spent crying

I grew weary of this thing you called love
Of the constant fighting
Of the agonizing visits to the hospital
Of the degrading nature in which you treated me

The nature where I was nothing less than your slave
Someone you could take advantage of
When things weren’t going your way
Or when you hated yourself so much
You felt the need to make me feel the same hatred

But yet I loved you still
It wasn’t long before you took every part of me
Before you took my virtue
The only thing I loved about myself
The one thing I had yet to give up to you
The one thing I was saving for the right man

A man who truly cared about me
And would never throw me to the floor
Saying I was nothing more than a useless *****

And what was it all for?
So you could brag
About another ****
With another girl, you lied and said you had fallen for

Two years in and you had broken me down
Took my pride in your stride
And made me crawl on my knees
Searching for a part of me you hadn’t yet seized

There are days when I wake up
Shaking from a vision of you
A vision in which I was still under your control
Where the ruthless words became fists being thrown at my face

I wish that I didn’t have these memories of you
That the scars on my arms didn’t still remind me of you

I wish that I could go a day without wincing when someone goes to touch me
Terrified that they will leave bruises like you always did

Despite all the torture you put me through
I still have faith
Faith that I will find the man for me

But more than that
I have faith in myself
Faith that I will become the woman I am meant to be
The woman you so ruthlessly tried to steal away from me