Can I Kiss Away Your Scars?



Love, it breaks my heart
To know all your heartbreaks
And that you still haven’t forgiven
Yourself for those past mistakes

It made me cry
To hear that you haven’t cried
Since you were eleven
And your baby sister died

It infuriated me to find
That the man who
Was supposed to raise you
Never did anything but degrade you

And it hurt me so to know
The ways you hurt so young
With no one to stand for you
Or to tell them NO!

I wish I could have been there
To keep those monsters away
I wish I could have held you
And told you it would be okay

My dear one, stop fighting it
You are so worthy of love
Stop trying to make me let you go
I’m here, and I love you
So much more than you will ever know
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme XABA XCBC XDDD EXDE XFDF XXEDE
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 673
Words 145
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 5

Rachel

I can't write about myself in third person, so let's make this an autobiography.I'm Rachel. I'm a nineteen year old college student. And, well, I'm pretty boring. I'm awkward, and I'm selfish. I'm both too serious and too whimsical. I'm hundreds of conflicts contained in a girl. I've only had one real love and I've been head over heels since I was fourteen (He's too stubborn to leave). Most things I write have a little of him between the lines. I'm trying to find my way through growing up and constantly fighting my instincts to pack up and runaway. I think too much and terrify myself. Life scares me and sometimes I forget to live. Insomnia and feeling lost led me here (it also led me to start blogging: http://growinguplostgirl.blogspot.com/)I'm here to grow so please critique anything and everything I post. The structure of my poems would probably give my old high school English teachers a heart attack. My punctuation, or lack there of, probably wouldn't make them feel any better. I get that people are very protective of their creations, but you can tear mine to shreds, as long as you respect the emotions behind them. Harsh criticism wont make me sob into a pillow, promise. more…

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  • B.mathislange
    Love your poem its written well but could be smoother. i wish I was told this at your age.You have a good future in writing as you learn.Sincerly Miss Barb
    LikeReply7 months ago

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