Below is a poem written by one of our service-users:
“Someone somewhere help me, I’ve become pretty lost.
It’s dark where I am, filled with things that hurt like thorns.
I can’t walk around no more with sharp words pulling on me like a razor to my skin.
I can’t pretend like someone somewhere hasn’t ruined my sense of being.
Someone somewhere knows my mind like an unsolvable maze.
I let them visit once, let them know my each stage.
Each level I let them cheat, let them climb each wall.
I let them fake their way through, knowing all along they never wanted my prizes,
never wanted my hand, love or mind.
They just wanted me to stand there, broken, wasting my time.
See, there’s someone somewhere who’s taken pride in taking away who I am.
They’ve taken away my sense of being, my sense of home.
There’s someone who’s the reason I’m scared to sleep
Scared of the darkness because I know it’s where they still creep.
But I’ve loosened my shackles and I’ve shattered my chains.
I’ve lit a candle in the darkness and screamed out your name.
There’s someone somewhere that’s, that’s taken who I am.
But you can have the girl I was, because I am much stronger now as I am.
I can breathe without pain
I can breathe on my own
I can feel the breeze on my skin, I’m no longer alone.
There’s someone somewhere, who’s made me this strong, made me almighty by breaking my bones.
There’s someone somewhere that’s now alone.
That will suffer for being a bully now I am gone.
I’m happy now and the happiest I’ve ever been.
It’s true what they say, when you’re going through Hell
Keep going.
“But I’ve loosened my shackles and I’ve shattered my chains.
I’ve lit a candle in the darkness and screamed out your name.
There’s someone somewhere that’s, that’s taken who I am.
But you can have the girl I was, because I am much stronger now as I am.”