To Be Without Fear

Never was there love or peace.
Each day was a new disaster.
One attack followed the next,
Each one more caustic than the other,
Like showering in acid rain,
The fury and venom of hatred never abated,
And I yearned for freedom.

It's all over now.
The screeching and shouting have stopped.
The perpetual warfare is no more.
Sleeping peacefully is already a reality.
I actually hear the quiet now for a change.
And it's a wondrous relief to be without fear.

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Reviews

[Nobody.]

painful and powerful look over the shoulder. I enjoyed the change of mood from the beginning flashback to the end....sort of waking from a nightmare tone. Splitting is always hard.

Great write man!
cheers!

[Alicia Schroeder]

Great write.

[Ed Hart]

the hardest thing of all is to leave someone whose roots run deep in your heart, because you know there just has to be 'better' out there

[NoneOfYourBusiness akaK..]

yes~ though at a cost~ soft silence within which one can reclaim themselves out of the quagmire of dark heartrending happenstance is worth it~
poignant poem smoothly transitioning from shadows to a plush soothing at the end~