Vent/poem
I'll be 18 in July and I spent the last year with an emotionally abusive, physically abusive and sexauly abusive partner. They'd guilt trip me into saying yes even when everything inside of me wanted to say no. I tried saying no to them so many time's but i couldn't ever hold my ground. It gotten to the point I'd always end up saying yes and giving them what they wanted.
Yet I loved them with all my heart, they meant the whole world to me. I loved them, i loved us, but I let them break me into shards of steel of a shield that they used to protect themselves. They never took care of that shield and thought it would never break, but it broke, it broke so bad it wounded the carer of the shield and scared them deep in their soul. The shards etched into their skin, deep in their heart and it seeped out onto what was left of the shield and the shield rusted badly and sadly it was gone, us was gone. But what does it matter I'm a man so who would care, I'm a shield that can't be repaired. I was the sword for your hilt, I was what carried all your guilt. The one sworn to carry all your burdens, even when those burdens were you.