abuse Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/abuse/ Trunkated tales, rumbling rhymes, and elephant art Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:36:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://i0.wp.com/elephantsnever.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/cropped-winter-logo-2019-20.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 abuse Archives - Elephants Never https://elephantsnever.com/tag/abuse/ 32 32 135387410 Shouldn’t Mother Be A Song? https://elephantsnever.com/shouldnt-mother-be-a-song/ https://elephantsnever.com/shouldnt-mother-be-a-song/#respond Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:36:31 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2373 by Prosper Enotor Path these curtains to my childhood, let in some light. This poem is the clattering of a coin toss in a room           the beep of a c-4 seconds away from explosion. At age four i first learn to nod, to balance day and night on my tongue.then, pain was not having enough toy to fill the Read More

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]]> https://elephantsnever.com/shouldnt-mother-be-a-song/feed/ 0 2373 child https://elephantsnever.com/child/ https://elephantsnever.com/child/#respond Mon, 18 Nov 2019 10:00:00 +0000 https://elephantsnever.com/?p=2241 by Iolana Paedelt cut me with your liesandlet me bleed out,drown in red blood-as i sinkdown,deeper into the dark abyss,still thinking that it’s love,when all you want issee me chokeon your darkness,so you can breathe. i asked you to stay.i said“you don’t have to leave.”you gave me all your words,your promises,and did it anyway.now i don’t know what is more Read More

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