Torn and Broken

• Deo Gratias!

• So I've been feeling retrospective lately...so I have decided to (gasp!) put up some free verse poetry from my 8th grade (I have a couple different poems). 8th grade had its ups and joys...and definitely had its downs and hard times. Well, in my agenda book, I had plenty of free space--so I would write about whatever was on my heart, whatever was on my mind, heck, even if it was something that I thought about--I would write. Writing was my outlet, my refuge, whenever I needed to get anything off my heart. I don't even think I've showed any of my 8th grade stuff EVER, but I really felt like I need to put it up. So here's poem number one! Enjoy!

• Torn and Broken


• She vowed she’s never


• Do it. Yet here she was


• Being told that


• She was.


• Unintentional,


• Yes. All she did was


• Love her brothers.


• Now she is different.


• She dreamed of a habit


• And first vows.


• Now she sees


• His eyes.


• Hears


• His voice.


• NO!


• She cried out


• In despair.


• I never wanted to


• Do this.


• I wanted to be


• So much more.


• God, please help me


• Overcome this,


• Fight


• Against it,


• And return


• To


• You.


• As time goes on,


• She struggles.


• Fighting with herself,


• Day after day,


• To free herself


• Of him, But it’s


• A losing battle.


• In despair, she


• Kept crying out


• A cry for help.


• God, please take


• Me. Make me so much


• More.


• I am torn and


• Broken.


• Please mend me,


• So I can Be Yours.


• Time


• Went on.


• Day after day. The struggles


• Tormented her.


• It became


• Unbearable


• For her. Until it happened.


• She received Jesus One day.


• And felt Love so strong


• She knew right


• Then,


• She would belong


• To God.


• For she had


• Cried


• And had


• Prayed


• He answered


• Her prayer. Now she could


• Love her


• Brothers


• And brothers


• They stayed.


• Day after day,


• She always praises


• Praises the God


• Who took her


• — Torn and broken—


• And made her


• Whole Once again.