Story of a Writer

Through her tears
And through her heart.
She tells about her life.
How inside, it tears apart.

She tells her stories.
She trys to tell her friends
But this everlasting pain...
Never seems to end.

Through the black pen
She pours out her soul.
Onto the white paper,
She tells us all.

Her dad's temper,
Her mother's pills.
How grown men...
Give her the chills.

Her boyfriends anger,
Decorations on her skin.
How she's fighting
Knowing she won't win.

Her only refuge.
Is her paper and pen.
Desperately telling us,
She's done no sin.

She is innocent.
Tired of being beat.
If no one will help her,
She will admit defeat.

When her strength is gone,
Who will ever help her?
No one, why? This is a...
Story of a Writer.

Copyright Brittney Follett
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