Go ahead
Hate me
I don't care anymore
Go ahead
Beat me
I don't hurt anymore
You think your stronger
You think you're more powerful
But you're not
I have confidence
I have love
I have a heart
I have something that you can never break
I am not glass
I am not plastic
I will not cover for you
You have hurt me too much
You led me towards harm
For many years now
I felt like I porcelin doll
But I am a woman now
You cannot break me
You can't change me
You can't break me
You're weak and powerless
You're words may hurt
You're words may cut me
You're hands may harm me
But never break me
I haven't quite found love yet
I know this isn't love
Pain and love aren't mixed together
They can never be
Go ahead
Cut me open
Shut me up
Interrupt me
Push me down
But one thing you can't do
Is break me
I feel good
I'm finally free
They took you away
This feels so good
I finally protected myself
From the evil monsters
One day
I'll find love
One good day
I'll find love
I was blind
By good looks
A good fake heart that worked
But now I see
That our love wasn't meant to be
Last week
I saw someone
Sweet and kind as much as you
Twice the man you could ever wish to be
He's strong and confident
And love and respects me
He doesn't push me down
He doesn't act out
He doesn't hurt me
Or try to break me
I am a woman
Confident and clean
I am sweet and kind
And the past will never break me.
Hate me
I don't care anymore
Go ahead
Beat me
I don't hurt anymore
You think your stronger
You think you're more powerful
But you're not
I have confidence
I have love
I have a heart
I have something that you can never break
I am not glass
I am not plastic
I will not cover for you
You have hurt me too much
You led me towards harm
For many years now
I felt like I porcelin doll
But I am a woman now
You cannot break me
You can't change me
You can't break me
You're weak and powerless
You're words may hurt
You're words may cut me
You're hands may harm me
But never break me
I haven't quite found love yet
I know this isn't love
Pain and love aren't mixed together
They can never be
Go ahead
Cut me open
Shut me up
Interrupt me
Push me down
But one thing you can't do
Is break me
I feel good
I'm finally free
They took you away
This feels so good
I finally protected myself
From the evil monsters
One day
I'll find love
One good day
I'll find love
I was blind
By good looks
A good fake heart that worked
But now I see
That our love wasn't meant to be
Last week
I saw someone
Sweet and kind as much as you
Twice the man you could ever wish to be
He's strong and confident
And love and respects me
He doesn't push me down
He doesn't act out
He doesn't hurt me
Or try to break me
I am a woman
Confident and clean
I am sweet and kind
And the past will never break me.
If no one ever marries me,—
And I don’t see why they should,
For nurse says I’m not pretty,
And I’m seldom very good—
If no one ever marries me
I shan’t mind very much;
I shall buy a squirrel in a cage,
And a little rabbit-hutch:
I shall have a cottage near a wood,
And a pony all my own,
And a little lamb quite clean and tame,
That I can take to town:
And when I’m getting really old,—
At twenty-eight or nine—
I shall buy a little orphan-girl
And bring her up as mine.
—Laurence Alma-Tadema
And I don’t see why they should,
For nurse says I’m not pretty,
And I’m seldom very good—
If no one ever marries me
I shan’t mind very much;
I shall buy a squirrel in a cage,
And a little rabbit-hutch:
I shall have a cottage near a wood,
And a pony all my own,
And a little lamb quite clean and tame,
That I can take to town:
And when I’m getting really old,—
At twenty-eight or nine—
I shall buy a little orphan-girl
And bring her up as mine.
—Laurence Alma-Tadema
I may only be One Voice,
But my One Voice is important because without my One Voice we could never have one million Voices.
my one Voice stands for ME.
what I think.
what I believe in.
and who I am.
My Voice is unique
But so is every other Voice
and every Voice is important*
So let your Voice be heard, be One in a million Voices
*not part of the original poem:
Important because millions of voices can create a defaning roar.
These black tears are the unshed blood from the wounds you left me
Not scars that healed, but fresh wounds that still bleed
You left my very soul in tatters, never mind my heart
But that someone who had taken you from me, had to take that too, and rip it apart
I don’t know who made you leave, or why, but I do know this,
That if you could, you would relive all the happy memories with me that I now have to miss
Now just as you are, the happy times are a ghost, a whisper in the wind
It feels like no matter how things turn out for me, this sadness that came over me will never end
It’s also selfish, wanting you to be here with me
You’re healed of sickness and pain, happy now with your other family
You were and angel when you were here
Now you’re just a different kind
One that will be our guardian until we can find you again
When we find our way to the light
Not scars that healed, but fresh wounds that still bleed
You left my very soul in tatters, never mind my heart
But that someone who had taken you from me, had to take that too, and rip it apart
I don’t know who made you leave, or why, but I do know this,
That if you could, you would relive all the happy memories with me that I now have to miss
Now just as you are, the happy times are a ghost, a whisper in the wind
It feels like no matter how things turn out for me, this sadness that came over me will never end
It’s also selfish, wanting you to be here with me
You’re healed of sickness and pain, happy now with your other family
You were and angel when you were here
Now you’re just a different kind
One that will be our guardian until we can find you again
When we find our way to the light
The years have passed
The moments flown by
Yet I still find myself here
starting to cry
The grass neatly trimmed
and the tombstone shines
Flowers' scents intoxicating
mixed with that of the pines
Dirt and mud disappeared
from your resting place
Finally I may kiss the ground
without having a mess of my face
There are other survivors
traveling this lonely road
Trying to move on
is as painful as letting go
My heart goes out to those
missing someone right now
Sometimes it's too hard living
When we forget how
But we share this common bond
Me and you
We keep catching and releasing
Not taking the same chances we used to
Different are the circumstances
but the results remain the same
Death showed a higher hand
and won the biggest pot in the game
But we must share with each other
We must not sink below the sorrow or the guilt
We must not reach ground zero
Else our lives won't be rebuilt
The moments flown by
Yet I still find myself here
starting to cry
The grass neatly trimmed
and the tombstone shines
Flowers' scents intoxicating
mixed with that of the pines
Dirt and mud disappeared
from your resting place
Finally I may kiss the ground
without having a mess of my face
There are other survivors
traveling this lonely road
Trying to move on
is as painful as letting go
My heart goes out to those
missing someone right now
Sometimes it's too hard living
When we forget how
But we share this common bond
Me and you
We keep catching and releasing
Not taking the same chances we used to
Different are the circumstances
but the results remain the same
Death showed a higher hand
and won the biggest pot in the game
But we must share with each other
We must not sink below the sorrow or the guilt
We must not reach ground zero
Else our lives won't be rebuilt