Defending Me (MAJOR TW for SA)



I am afraid
And I am awful
For thinking up things
Like the nightmarish stories
In my stupid head.
But
What would become of me
If a nightmare
I wake up from
Were to actually come true?
What would I do?
Could I fight back
With all my strength
And courage and terror,
Or would it be
Too much for me
And I’d just freeze
For good?
I can't move
In times of peril,
For it has become
A part of me
To be paralyzed
While terrified.
Would I allow a him
To do whatever
He wanted to me,
Violating my bubble
And personal space
And body,
Or would I actually
Be able to fight back
For the little girl
Inside me
Who never could?

About this poem

I wonder over and over if I'd be in a state to fight back or if my instinct of freezing up would kick in and stop me from saving myself.

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Submitted by lonely-blue-sheep on April 06, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABCDEFGHIJJKLMGGDNOBIGPQRMGBSGGKTGN
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 625
Words 146
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 35

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