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Poetry By Cheyenne
There's a lot of poetry on here. Happy, sad, funny, horrible, and terrifying.
But it's all poetry, and it's all mine
And I'd love to share it with you
So give it a read!

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

Children

11/30/2017

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His hands never touched me in that way, anger fisting into sensation, pain thrumming
through skin, bone, flesh.
His hands came through my ears,
    doors I had slammed shut and blankets thrown over me.
Fear became a cloak, is still a cloak.

He doesn’t see what he did wrong.
Everything is fine
    but summers must end, and lingering affection gets through like a net over the next
youngest child.

Hot breath,
    angry exhalations,
        yells,
            screams,
                sobs,
            huddling embraces,
        hearts wanting to stop the beating
    beating against ribs, doors,
faces, backs, bones.

He’s not the only one.
I cradle my friend,
her legs kick and shoulders jerk beneath my hold--
and I try not to cry.
The sobs crawl up my throat,
but I shove them back down my windpipe
    with curses I don’t dare say.

My fists clench, as bile rises,
and violence shears past the controlled fear,
ripping through curtains keeping away memories
    of small children running and hiding
    from a giant who calls them his.

2 Comments
Gina
12/1/2017 10:02:55 am

So Beautifully written. I found it so hard to read though because the message of abuse hit me hard. Your poem really affected me and actually brought me to tears . Your writings come from a very real and very dark place that you yourself have been it seems... and I'm so sorry for that

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Bo
12/4/2017 07:17:03 am

Damn Chey. This is incredible.

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    Cheyenne Bramwell

    I love to write, and poetry is one of my favorite ways to figure out what my brain is doing.

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