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The Ballad of Hammer Hand
This is a fictional account, but based
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On truth for many women. I was,
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Myself, abused by an ex-b
@SoulSurvivor
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Dark Shoes
I walk on broken glass
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Barefoot and white dazed
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Jagged shards dig my skin
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Life is all hazed /
@silent-screams
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White Wolf
*Rising from the snow*,
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A warrior of scars remains.
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Betrayed, battered, and broken..
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**The blo
@julie-kirby
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Survivor
Scars scattered on my skin,
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Pain storming deep within,
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Yet, I am proud to say,
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I'm a survivor;
@eeriefairy9697
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For you, I will (collab with blythe)
**With tears in my eyes,
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I will smile,**
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With the shadows perished by,
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I will be the daylight,
@bluestarfall
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The Vandalized Soul.
**Remember? Do you?**
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*The verses of the Mahabharata,
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Where Draupati begged to let her go,
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Whe
@anshula-nema
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Seeing stars
*Its been written in the stars that I will be
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Starstruck by your personality, and your
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clenched
@Camellia-japonica
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Trust.
the foundation of everything
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honest to god truth
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faith.
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what's the use?
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The darkness inside
@Asonna
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A Battered Woman's Thoughts
Paranoid and scared
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Feeling unprepared
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Where will you strike next?
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I hate having to guess
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I
@WiserasWoods
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Perfect Wife
PERFECT WIFE
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A perfect little wife
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A perfect loving life
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He slaps me in the face
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I don’t fee
@brent-kincaid
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Arisen within.
She rose from deep within,
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Like a phoenix out from the ashes,
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Body covered with streaks of wound
@yusof-asnan
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Battered Wife
I remember how you make me such a disgrace
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Those time that you slap me in the face
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My heart beat
@Helloimnichole
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Not Invincible
The battle is over
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my blade is broken
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all of my arrows
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have long been spent
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Blood runs like
@South-by-Southwest
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Lost in the Rain
Your sad eyes awaken a need within me to heal the heart which cries tears poorly hidden by the night
@Mooretosay
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Pain
There is a cravice
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in my cheeks
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on which a tide of tears
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has flowed upon
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The person who once
@debbie-brindley
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torn
our clothes,
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our tattered clothes
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are torn up and frayed,
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unsightly and stained
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the bindings
@NoahGrace
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Puppet and the Puppeteer
I feel like a puppet.
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I wish God would make up His mind.
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One minute death,
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the next life.
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I
@hannah-bauer
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okay
i am an architect
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though my hand has been guided many a time
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i have etched my own path
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into a
@rainbowconnection
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DARK COLORS OF HER STAR
She were like a hound
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Which to a post of its choice was bound
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In her hands lay tatters of shame
@ignatius-hosiana
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(unwhole)
I am imperfect.
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I am *unwhole.*
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I have been beaten and battered,
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left without a *soul.*
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As h
@hayleyqsick
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Wings
Why
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do you
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pull me
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In as a
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wave
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and push
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with the
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strength
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of your
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wind,
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why
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d
@hiba-mohammed-sobh
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Outside Looking in
A dog is outside just sitting there
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food was left nearby
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but dog just stands langidly
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outside
@karijinbba
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torn
our clothes,
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our tattered clothes
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are torn up and frayed,
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unsightly and stained
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the bindings
@NoahGrace
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Washing Machine Safe
I must be easily mistaken
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For a coat on a plastic hanger
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Because nothing has been more familiar
@Bluerayne14
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