Angela Davis

I saw her in the lot facing a man twice her size Defiantly she shouted her palm cracking his bearded cheek…

You say that you love me, You say that you're here, You say that I'm not alone, That I don't have to be anymore...…

Beginning of a new life, Ending of the old Security found with another, Fear of loss…

I reside in her heart yet I live alone in the shadowed past in the uncertain future…

Unseen I stand alone watching, waiting silently worshiping the goddess of my heart…

Hellish beast hunts the night Stealing loved ones from my sight In the darkness all is lost Was my freedom worth the cost?…

I went for a walk with my love down to an old vacant lot she took me littered, and broken up it made me sad,…

This is for every woman that cries herself to sleep that lies alone in bed at night that stays awake, unable to sleep…

I was a small child an outlet for my parents' rage, his vile, sickening lust and I fought…

For so long I buried and denied the anger that dwelt within for all the horrid deeds done to me that which I could not repress…

Tell me of pain, what you know of it. Is it to be feared, or guarded against like a tangible foe? Do you seek it, or merely accept it…

I was still young and able bodied searching- trying to find what was to be my life…

You quiet the storm within my fearful, restless, shattered soul…

I was always alone both body and soul People saw and turned away because I was nobody…

I remember hiding, crying, cowering, screaming, begging God to end my life…