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Of course I can alone.
I am the daughter who never vented to her parents.
I am the daughter who had to protect everyone else
while no one protected her.
The distant daughter.
The woman who heals herself.
I always can.
I always could.
I always will.

Actually, it nearly destroyed me...
It gave me nightmares and stole my smile bones,
it gave me self destructive coping mechanisms
and made me feel so broken... so... unloved.

It took my own strength to face my traumas,
to scream into the blanked out faces that they won't win.

I have been handed terrible situations...
It is not my fault and I have learned to survive.

Go ahead and bring me your all.
You may be able to knock me down
I will still stand back up in spite of you.

There's a little girl
within me who still
thinks if she's
quiet enough, that if
she behaves enough,
that if today, she's just
enough to be good enough,
that someone will
come back for her.
But the woman I've
grown into knows now,
no one is going back
for her, except for me.