<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=558281" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Was a Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was a child - only 13<br>I was looking to be loved<br>What I found was the devil<br>I wasn’t to know love shouldn’t <br>Hurt with so much intense pain<br>I wasn’t to know the difference<br>Between passion and possession</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He taught me every lesson I needed<br>He gave me validation of my worth<br>Unworthy he assured me with certainty<br>He told me I am now his to keep<br>He stole years of what was my life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">His idea of play included pain<br>I felt his games over and over <br>Until I learned to no longer feel<br>He captured my soul and tormented it<br>Until he destroyed what remained</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Left with no strength to walk away<br>Fear of death was his ultimate weapon<br>He took the power of my mind <br>He gave me a choice to escape<br>For this he would take something<br>Someone I loved - the life of my brother<br>My decision quite simply I made – I stayed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">What became of the years to follow? <br>I was a child – I was broken, beaten, kicked, <br>I was a child – I was tormented, raped, violated <br>I was a child – I was frightened, and wished to die<br>I was a child – I wanted to be that child again.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>(April 22nd 2007)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Charmaine+Simpson">Charmaine Simpson</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=558281" data-title="I Was a Child de Charmaine Simpson" data-description="I was a child - only 13 I was looking to be loved What I found was the devil I wasn’t to know love shouldn’t Hurt with so much intense pain I wasn’t to know the difference Between passion and possession He taught me every lesson I needed H..."></div> </div> </div>

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