The day you said it was okay
to do the things you did
was the day I closed my heart,
then ran away and hid.
You said it was okay,
you said it was all right,
but then I grew up,
and I knew you lied.
Mother, please help; mother, I need you here.
If only I could tell you,
but there is no need to share,
for if I did I'd fear you wouldn't care.
Now I know it's over,
now I know its done.
All I fear now
is what he could have done.
I feel very sorry for what you went through, I was sexually abused by my step-dad and I was only brave enough to tell my mother when they had split up, but she didn't believe me and married...
Sexual Abuse By Mother's Boyfriend
Published by Family Friend Poems October 2009 with permission of the Author.