I won't be a victim, not even for you.

In my lifetime I've walked often enough in those shoes.

I'm tired of the fighting and the verbal abuse.

I've been hurt so much already I have nothing to lose.

I'm standing up and fighting back and shouting, "This is me"!!!

I won't let you hurt me anymore.....I'm ready to be free!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When your words are harsh, and cut us to the core,

If you stabbed us each one hundred times it couldn't hurt
us more.

When your temper fires up......I cringe each time you roar

Because you're not the man I knew, I don't know you anymore.

You remind me of a person now who hurt me very much............

And though you can not help it you remind me of his touch.

I need to be away from this..... to think and maybe heal,

To you this may seem silly, but to me it's very real.

The abuse I suffered growing up, you do not understand at all.

And to protect myself from hurting I started putting up a wall.

I'm not the girl you think I am, my past is very black.

It's best we leave it here at this so I can start to pack.

I do not want to hurt you but this is where it ends,

I only hope after all these years that we can part as friends,

If only for the sake, of the children that we share

I beg of you forgive me, if you really care.

The past will always haunt me, and the monsters hide inside.

My pain will never let me go.....believe me I have tried

To escape the memories and tears.....

That linger here inside me, after all these years.........................