All this in the name of love
Love is violent…destructive
It stalks you at night
Tracking your every move
It lurks in every shadow
Love abandons you helpless on a dark road
Hurling drunken abuse as it screams away
Love closes it’s hands around your throat in a jealous rage
Squeezing the breath out of you
Only to wake and find love collapsed on top of you
Inside you, all around
Love looks on as you huddle on the shower floor
Water streaming over your naked body
Scrubbing in vain to rid yourself of its touch, its smell, its feel
Love traps you in a dark room with no way out
Screaming foul words and abuse
It ensures you’re at home waiting
Returning to fuck you smelling of another
Love grins as it watches you sitting night after night
Beside your child’s hosptial bed
Watching her fade away before your eyes
Love is cruel
It keeps you trapped, broken
Love transforms a strong beautiful woman into
A beaten, dependant shell of what once was
All this in the name of love.
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Shit ! I want to kill this barstard ! and show what love should be ! very will written, i feel so upset now. I sure hope you are okay.
thanks googa – it tooks years to break free and believe that i am worthy of love…but now i am married to an amazing man who met me during that horrible time. he believed in me.
is it love or lust?
love should caring and gentle, like a father watching over a newborn or a mother protecting her children
i think love comes in many forms and at the time this is what i knew as love
Hi Sarah,
This is one why of getting the past out of your system, Just look around you , you have love all around , your family is so loveable , all with common interests.
Hope you are OK talk to Rosa let it out.
Think about you
Warren
Oh that’s so familiar, especially the shower…and this
“Love transforms a strong beautiful woman into
A beaten, dependant shell of what once was”
You have put it into words so well.
Oh Sare – such powerful words
my heart really hurts that this has been your experience of love, that isn’t love at all. So glad that you managed to find the path leading out of that dark place.
reaching out with a hug!
WOW Sarah this is a very powerful piece of writing and very brave of you to share…..
Terrible that you had to go through it but wonderful that you have come out the other side
warren – thanks mum has always been there when i needed her
bobbie – sucks that you know what i am talking about – too many women do i think, thanks though for the generous comment!
dave & deon – the words came too easily on this one, it was almost cathartic (time to let go!!)
Sarah, that is not any love I am familiar with and never want to know. I admire your bravery in exposing your experience to the world. You have retained what that love tried to break and you should be very proud. Excellently written!