The adventure

Standing there, holding each other as close as our own skin. We were looking at our future, not sure what it held. It was large and full of

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Like trash

Early on in my recovery I felt like this.  I felt like I was waiting for the hammer to drop, waiting for people to move on, waiting for

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Big Boys a Don’t cry

More than any other this harmful stereotype prevents young men and boys speaking up and out about what is happening to them or what has happened to them….

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Suicide :

  For those that have experienced extreme trauma, suicide isn’t necessarily seen as a means to escape their problems, but as a way to stop them hurting those

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Rain…

This was the first piece of poetry I wrote when I started to get the flashbacks and memory recalls, it was not the first time I was abused,

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it is not over

  One of the biggest issues faced by those that have experienced trauma of an extreme nature is a sense that the life they feel they never lived, is

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the future

Most people who have been through incredibly difficult situations allow those situation to define them for the rest of their lives. To me they seem to revel in

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still poor

  If I had a dollar for each of the one million times a day I think of you, I would still be poor. because nothing replaces sitting

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somedays

  somedays love sneaks out of my eyes and rolls down my cheeks when i think of you.

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a better man

  Give me the time and I will be the man that you need and not the man that I am.

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