<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392415" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Damage of Abuse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish I could expose and shame<br>All those who abused you when you were a girl<br>Growing up in a torrent of hail and pain<br>As they stripped the remains of your childhood away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The foster-mother who neglected you<br>The foster-father who molested you<br>The welfare worker who imprisoned you<br>The state psychiatrist who violated you<br>The extended family that turned their eyes blind<br>The review board members who enabled it all</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wish I could avenge the damage<br>That impels your daily struggle for peace<br>Your search for perfection and release<br>And your courageous strength of will<br>Reaching for what is normal and whole</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Show me who to shame and kill<br>To avenge the damages done to you<br>And the hurts to those who love you now<br>Inflicted in collateral</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know there is no revenge to be had<br>Your abusers are escaped or dead<br>But they live on among us, untouchable<br>In all the damage they do and did.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Frank+Bana">Frank Bana</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=392415" data-title="The Damage of Abuse de Frank Bana" data-description="I wish I could expose and shame All those who abused you when you were a girl Growing up in a torrent of hail and pain As they stripped the remains of your childhood away The foster-mother who neglected you The foster-father who molested you The ..."></div> </div> </div>

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