How Experiencing Domestic Violence Taught Me to Love Myself

Since 2017, I’ve found myself engulfed in multiple abusive relationships. I left one relationship in which I’d been experiencing physical and emotional abuse for months, only to enter another relationship that turned abusive during the end. Experiencing domestic violence took a toll on my overall well-being. Physically, my bruises healed, but mentally I was still […]

Roots – Poetry

I no longer have time, For those who only want to love my flowers and not my roots Maybe I’m too much woman For those who are only used to immaturity I’m an emotional woman, And I will no longer apologize for this Men claim to want me because of my physical appearance But they […]

If These Walls Could Talk – Poetry

If these walls could talk, They’d have so much to say They’d talk about the countless nights they heard me sobbing and begging GOD to heal my heart Or, To let that night be the last one I spent alive They’d tell the story of the abuse they witnessed And how they saw a man […]

Recognizing the Signs of Domestic Violence and Abuse

When people think of abuse in relationships, they often think of physical violence. However, there are other ways in which a person can be abusive. At the beginning of 2017, I got involved with someone who almost seemed too good to be true. He helped me out of another situation I was in and in […]

8/9/21- POETRY

I’m thinking of the woman I’m going to marry Wondering if she’ll write me poems like you used to Wondering if just her touch will be enough to soak my panties Wondering if when we make love she’ll take me to new horizons each time we bump and grind Wondering if she’ll know what to […]