Love Poem: Live With Yourself
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Written by: Kelly Streit

Live With Yourself

Just when I think I'm over it Just when I think I won I start to reminise about all the 
harm you done 

The bloody lip Bruised arms When you would drag me by my hair

All my clothes you would rip How it wasn't fair 


The times you threatened to rape me How scared I was inside

The times you threatened to kill me and made me want to die

The times you threw me into a window and I would truly scream 

The times you told me to shut up or you would keep inflecting pain on me

The times I didn't shut up and the abuse would get worse

All the times my life just seemed like a fatal curse

All the times I wanted to be happy but sadness saw me through 

Sadness was what I got because I didn't get rid of you

Thinking you would change Wash away my rain 

But instead stayed the same A boy filled with rage 

A man never to be Not if life depended on it 

A boy I'll never again see My heart I will not again pond it
Though I'm filled with pain deep inside my heart Though Part of me is still stuck 
in the dark 


Though I can't say how many more tears I will cry

Though I don't know when this pain will die

Though I have to live with everything that happened to me
You suffer the most Because You have to live with yourself inevitably


Never again will I make the same mistakes In the end I was the one to gain

Gained a lesson A lesson truly learned A fight so strong Now the tables have 
truly turned 




Copyright © 2007 kelly Streit