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Poem Review: Looking Backward

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A SISTER UNHEARD From a single moment in life time, her life changes forever. It’s odd how her life can be twisted in a whole new direction, in just a few seconds. Day in day out, she feels as if no one understands, The world may see a huge smile on her face daily, but if only they knew what she’s holding onto. The feelings have become so much of a burden on her that she can’t seems to let go of this horror. Deep within, she wants to forgive, but it’s uneasy on her part to let go of that very moment. The moment when her mind was filled with uncertainty, and his was filled with lechery. She wants to forgive her abuser for this life changing pain he’s inflated into her, but she can’t. He’s taken a whole part of her away with every plunge. …show more content…

So, in this moment of no one standing up for her, it continued on and on, and she just gave up on mentioning it. The horrors she went on in the middle of every night. In her mind, she’s grown weak and just went on to accept it. For her, it’s happened before, and continuously, so maybe it's all right to just endure the pains over and over again. She grew up, and just clicked to the fact that she’s over it. In her mind, she really is over this horrifying moment, but not a day goes by that she doesn’t think about it in each breakdowns. She can’t change her past, she can’t sleep at night, because of this life changing event she succumbed without a willing acceptance. Now that she’s grown, she’s realized the only way she can get past that moment is opening up and speaking about it. However, when she’s younger, no one ever tried to listen. In anger she screams, “HOW THE HELL DO I LET GO”?, when no one cares to listen, or cares about you? There’s nothing else she could do, so she just put on the sweetest

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