Domestic Violence Poetry

On this page you can find a selection of Domestic Violence Poetry and Prose either by Survivors of domestic abuse on their experiences or on their feelings. There are also poems of joy having found freedom again, on being able to appreciate the warm sun and the blue sky, but also poetry by children who witnessed domestic violence growing up.

Further down the page you will find Open Letter: to former abusers, about the experiences of abuse and about the effects of being an abuse victim.

If you have a poem or anything else you have written to share with us, please email me. Thank you.

Domestic Violence Poems 1 - including:

Learned Helplessness
He comes, seeking veni vidi vici
Stopping the War
A Lie
The Seed
Standing Tall
Please don't put me in this box ...
Silence
If I cry alone
Epitaph to a Marriage
We open our hearts so freely
Hope
Who?
I can say No
False Affirmations
We hide in Silence
Lessons from a walk in the dark
UNBROKEN VOWS
Like a bird
2 o'clock
No Happy Ending
Deadly Storm
What a Lad!
A Childhood Lost
At the top of the stairs
I can't

Rape of the Soul - opens as a PDF file!

The Survivor's Psalm

Domestic Violence Poems 2 - including

Because I can
Someone listen to me please
Broken
Wedding Night
God Told Me To Punish You
Life
No More - An Ode to Richard
Thank You
The Hands that made the Weapon
Night and day
Scarlet

Have you got a story to tell? A poem to share or feelings you have put to paper?
Please do send it to us! Simply write it down in whatever format suits you best and send it by email to stories@hiddenhurt.co.uk (this is not a live link to avoid excessive spam). We look forward to hearing from you!

Open Letter from Surivors of Domestic Violence

Dear You - An Open Letter to her Abuser from a Survivor who managed to leave her abusive relationship and looks back at all the emotional abuse and lies.

Breaking Abuse Cycle - Thinking back over her life, one abuse victim considers what is needed to for breaking abuse cycles in dysfunctional abusive families. These are her thoughts and experiences.

Open Letter to her Abuser - A surivor of domestic abuse describes how her experiences have completely changed her perspective of the world, a world which once seemed safe.

Recovering from Marital Rape: a Personal Journey - "It was three years since I had last been assaulted, I had gone over and over everything, knew all the facts and stats and jargon. I thought I had worked through it and largely 'got over it', and yet this experience made me realise that in actual fact I had not really healed at all, was nowhere near 'over it'."

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In This Section:

Domestic Violence Poetry
Rape of the Soul (PDF)
Domestic Violence Poems 1
Domestic Violence Poems 2
Survivors' Psalm

Open Letters
Dear You
Open Letter to her Abuser
Marital Rape Recovery
Breaking Abuse Cycle

Domestic Violence Stories

Recommended Reading:

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To order in the US: And Still I Rise

To order in the UK: And Still I Rise

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To order in the US: It's My Life Now: Starting Over After an Abusive Relationship or Domestic Violence, 2nd Edition

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