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SURVIVOR OF THE NIGHT
On an eerie night of horror and shame,
she looked into the mirror,
she knew who was to blame.
Bruises around her eyes,
she remembered her unanswered cries.
she wiped a tear from her pale shattered face,
and she wearily put her clothes back into there place.
Scalding hot water pounding her head,
dreary thoughts of hell and places for the dead.
She scrubbed herself clean until she was raw.
she looked into the mirror and again, she saw..
a frightened little girl overwhelmed with pain.
Her heart undignified, bound in chains.
She climbed in bed and tried to sleep,
her head and heart pounded,
her soul began to weep.
The sun came up chasing the darkness away.
She arose to the dawn of a brand new day.
The past still haunted her
though she would survive and say
"I've made it through that horror,
I know I'm still alive"
Survivor of the night, givers of light
come together to conquer the darkest of deeds
to suffice the greatest of needs.
She looked at the dawn and saw God above,
bestow his gentle hand full of mercy and love.
a day, so fresh, so clear.
Forgiveness and redemption dear.
And through the horror and the fright,
came THE SURVIVOR OF THE NIGHT.
BY CJR
for all of you who have been beaten by husbands or boyfriend, or raped and molested. I've been there and I'm here to talk if you want.
you can make it through this.
