Tag: domestic violence

• Mouse

  

  She is a mouseHiding from the volley of truthThe folly of youthHas her reading the back of the shampooWhile they shoutBuilding a tower of cotton budsWhile they screamStaring through the green viscosity of the handwashIgnoring the atrocity of another smashed plateAnother crash of hateShe is a mouse in her holeHer sanctumHer tile-lined cellWith the chips…

  Serena Malcolm

  6 August, 2024

  Fear

  childhood, childhood trauma, domestic abuse, domestic violence, memories, poem, poetry, safe space, trauma

• Sticks & Stones – International Women’s Day

  

  Sticks & Stones by Serena Malcolm – a poem for #internationalwomensday #IWD *** TRIGGER WARNING – Domestic Abuse *** I actually wrote this poem a few years ago. I am fortunate enough to have a wonderful husband of 11 years, but before him I experienced emotional abuse in a relationship. I am not alone. There…

  Serena Malcolm

  8 March, 2021

  Inspire

  Adam and Eve, domestic abuse, domestic violence, inspire, International Women's Day, IWD, poem, poetry, Survivors, women’s issues

• Example

  

  My Daddy hitted a man, There was lots of blood and I sawed that when daddy hitted the man, the man went to sleep on the floor, And daddy had on that face, Like the one when he hitted my mum and she cried and cried and cried and kept asking him what she had done,…

  Serena Malcolm

  23 May, 2015

  Other

  abuse, bad example, childhood, children, control, domestic abuse, domestic violence, emotion, emulation, examples, Father, food for thought, lessons, life, life lessons, Parenting, parents, poem, poetry, role models, setting examples, son, thought-provoking