"SKELETON IN MY CLOSET"

The secret unravels
in my head
Time to reveal it
before I'm dead.
A thousand deaths
I have died before
To revisit the gateway
to hell once more.

Unspoken word of
incest and rape
Sickens my heart
with disgust and rage.
Time to tell you
what I feel
No longer a secret,
my soul can heal.

"Hush! Hush!
don't breathe a word
This is our secret,
daddy's little girl.
If you tell mother,
she'll take you away
Can't bear losing
you this way."

Pain and scars,
infliction upon me
Forever etched in
my darkest memory.
God gave me the
courage to say it all
Skeleton in my closet
no longer allowed.

Too long the silence,
know my pain
Set me free to
live again.
You need to be held
accountable for your actions
Justice for me,
to myself, satisfaction.

Author:
Lucille aka [email protected]
copyright �2003

Dedicated to the victims of incest/rape