Battered Nightmares Poem by Laura M. Eggebrecht

Looking Back To The Past... I Vision You...
My Heart Belonged To Only You. My Love,
I Felt It Deep Within... My Memories...
There So Clear As If A Looking Glass.. Of My Todays.

While I Loved You... I Gave You My Heart
You Pulled Me By My Hair, Threw Me Up
Against A Wall, Back Handed Me, And
Disrespected Me In Every Way... Many Tears
Upon My Eyes Rolled Down My Face.

Many Prayers Were Said While I Took
Your Many Beatings... In My Mind Over & Over Again
I Asked.. God To ForGive You..
For You Knew Not What You Do...
Many Times, Many Tears Like A Water Fall.

The More I Tried To Love You... The More
You Beat Me, Kept Me From Family & Friends.
While I Around You... You Kept Me Shakin Within.
My Life, Confused & Me So Scared,
My Only Out.. Is, A Womens Shelter
For Battered Women... And A Restaining Order

And Yet Scared For My Life...
With Memorys Of.. My Battered Nightmares