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.

A Woman's Shutter

The fear that strikes,
the feet that hit
the ground by which
an anger is lit;
the woman hunched,
the woman cowering
under the iron fist
of the man towering;
a complete thought
not to escape
her lips or mouth
without a berate;
the love she once
craved for and longed
now scares her to death
in a place feeling so wrong.
A passion he used
to use for love
now fuels a fury
that nothing rises above.
A relationship that has
become a suffocating corner
has her trapped in the moment
with no way to go forward.
With no flow of ideas
in a mind shut down
by fear for life
that always abounds,
she closes her eyes
(as her stamina is gone)
and prays for the safety
that has long been undone.