Sweetheart Breakdown

Self-esteem to the floor
from the beat downs of years,
the ones that firmly instilled
these unfounded fears.
She's been told by all
the lacking she does possess,
a fable that stifled
any resemblance of progress.
She was told the lies
to keep her spirit down,
to ensure she would never
leave this God-forsaken town.
She was coached to believe
her worth to be zero
then coaxed to believe
there was nowhere she could go.
The behaviors therefore learned
by the sweetheart beaten down
are those she feels never
can be turned around.
The hole of a home,
this place with no promise,
is a dwelling she's resigned
to eternally, to alone face.
The promise that formerly
existed in her soul
was suffocated completely
a long time ago
as now she is to
become just another shadow
another insect crushed
under the foot of the hollow.