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I wrote this poem for my therapist when she asked me to write what shame looked like. It is as tho Shame is talking to me and telling me the damage it had done to me.
MY NAME IS SHAME
My name is Shame
I live inside of you
Whatever you say
Whatever you
Is not good enough
My name is Shame
I live in inside your mind
I am not sweet
Nor am I very kind
I cause you to feel
That you have no self worth
I didnt arrive
The day of your birth
I came much later
I think you were two
I saw it in your eyes
You were sad, you were blue
It was then I knew
I would take over your soul
And all that Id leave
Was a deep dark black hole
My name is Shame
I live inside of you
Whatever you say whatever you do
Is not good enough.
I murdered your spirit
When he touched you that day
There was nothing you could do
There was nothing you could say.
You were only 4
A sad little girl
Lonely and forgotten
Alone in the world
I entered your life
No safe place could you find
I invaded your body
I invaded your mind
I caused you to feel
So empty inside
A pain thats do deep
You wished you had died.
My name is Shame
I am felt at the core
I set you up to think
Youre a whore
The day that he touched you
Was the day that I saw
I could do damage and so very much more
You have no place to run
I am everything you feel
You were sexually abused
Its really no bid deal
Your rage, your anger
Stuff them as well
Youre a bad little child
And I am your hell
I love to make you cry
And feel so very sad
I love to make you angry
I love to make you mad.
And then I tell you your feelings
They are wrong,
That you basically are nothing
That you dont belong
I am ugly and devious
A thorn in your side
And all you can do is
Run away and hide.
I am your worst nightmare
I am there when you sleep
I am there when you cry
I am your tears when you weep
But you need me now,
Until you can see
That my purpose is useless
Only then Ill be free
Never to return and enter your soul
Uncovering the lies
The truth will unfold
My name is Shame
I live in your mind
I am not sweet
Nor am I very kind.
Jeanette 2006
MY NAME IS SHAME
My name is Shame
I live inside of you
Whatever you say
Whatever you
Is not good enough
My name is Shame
I live in inside your mind
I am not sweet
Nor am I very kind
I cause you to feel
That you have no self worth
I didnt arrive
The day of your birth
I came much later
I think you were two
I saw it in your eyes
You were sad, you were blue
It was then I knew
I would take over your soul
And all that Id leave
Was a deep dark black hole
My name is Shame
I live inside of you
Whatever you say whatever you do
Is not good enough.
I murdered your spirit
When he touched you that day
There was nothing you could do
There was nothing you could say.
You were only 4
A sad little girl
Lonely and forgotten
Alone in the world
I entered your life
No safe place could you find
I invaded your body
I invaded your mind
I caused you to feel
So empty inside
A pain thats do deep
You wished you had died.
My name is Shame
I am felt at the core
I set you up to think
Youre a whore
The day that he touched you
Was the day that I saw
I could do damage and so very much more
You have no place to run
I am everything you feel
You were sexually abused
Its really no bid deal
Your rage, your anger
Stuff them as well
Youre a bad little child
And I am your hell
I love to make you cry
And feel so very sad
I love to make you angry
I love to make you mad.
And then I tell you your feelings
They are wrong,
That you basically are nothing
That you dont belong
I am ugly and devious
A thorn in your side
And all you can do is
Run away and hide.
I am your worst nightmare
I am there when you sleep
I am there when you cry
I am your tears when you weep
But you need me now,
Until you can see
That my purpose is useless
Only then Ill be free
Never to return and enter your soul
Uncovering the lies
The truth will unfold
My name is Shame
I live in your mind
I am not sweet
Nor am I very kind.
Jeanette 2006
ScaredandScarred
Wonderfully written x
deleted_user
this is really well written and very expressive. i can relate to it so easily!
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