VB

Qe

Plunging through the tunnel
even faster than before
enveloped by the darkness
looking for an opened door.
Like a pinpoint in the distance
I see a speck of light

growing nearer by the second
by the second its more bright
I Ask-myself is this the end
or is it the beginning,

there was a crash, a bang,

    
    

Zo. Portrait of Abuse

I remember

CA
VS

I remember you father
you threw me down the stairs
and locked me in my room |
you-still beat me
in my dreams

I awake screaming :
but the dream does not fade.

 

 

I remember you mother
you pushed me from the car
I remember my coma
that stole so much

I waited for attention
which I never received
Only pain.

The day they came
perhaps the worst
1 On that day, I thought XS
that my life had truly gone bad
/ You told me lies AEE
You beat me submissive
And I loved you.

Yet I still remember it all
| / But then perhaps not all \.!
No, never all
I lie awake
awaiting the memories
/ know will come with sleep

S Sleep, I remember not - good sleep.

Hof
| / I need you no longer
| /

by B. R. Thiessen

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I am trapped

and then I heard sweet voices singing
Once back in the light xs
I'm almost finished with the race. #9
I look into the coffin,
there’s a smile upon my face. aaa ae
by Vanessa Rooke Le

     
  
 

      
    
  

I run with my arms swinging
into the mouth of the night

I look back
And see the mouth has closed

Back into the realm of mirrors
ten thousand reflections of myself

without knowing which is real
ks
you can all see me Se \
. : 2 \

and who is watching you af |
Do you know whose reflection you see

  
 
    
    
   

in the mirror
or whose blood

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= There’s a girl who I hate
drips from your own veins- she makes me really mad!
There’s a man who is weak,
isn’t that too bad?

     
  

 

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He tells me that he loves me =
but runs to this girls side,
alone in here I sit,

Communication’s been denied

I won’t stand in his way, Su
and wait for some bad news,

like, "baby I am leaving you" 7
I cannot bear to lose.

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Nay When I met this man, ee
/ I loved him with all of my heart,

never did I dream,
We'd ever fall so far apart.

   

Zor
So I’m going to let him go, go
to run his chosen way,

I cannot make him want me, ‘
the way I wanted him today! /” ‘

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by Corrina Tolmie

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