The secrets that I keep

[AlexandratheLate]

Thank you very much RLW for reading and commenting.

[AlexandratheLate]

Thank you very much TS for reading and the like.

[RhymeLovingWriter]

Incredible strength you show now...thanks for sharing this message from the "other side" of a bad situation!

[AlexandratheLate]

an older poem I wrote on domestic abuse

The Secrets that I keep


I am a confident and strong woman
He worked for his university degree
We had so many great things in common
He was my dream and my reality


He tried to throw me out of the moving car
The fault was mine, I should have stayed quiet
He could flirt with every girl at the bar
My sole purpose was to be compliant


I didn’t have the strength to walk out the door
but I mastered every type of apology
I loved him so much, driven to endure
His love covered his deep hostility


My feelings didn’t count, I made him do it
He said he never laid a hand on me
It was entirely my fault he threw a fit
My bruised body told a different story


These are the shameful secrets that I keep
My wonderful life is a mystery
When I lay awake, cry myself to sleep
I wonder, is this to be my legacy

By AlexandratheLate
2/26/2017