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Category: Poetry for Surviors

In Stunned Silence: A Poem for Male Survivors of Sexual Assault

Leave a Comment / Poetry for Surviors / By Amy Marschak / March 30, 2018

In stunned silence, How could this be? How could a thing like this happen to me? I am… Not a child. I am… Not a female. And I am strong. And yet it happened, To me. I, want to scream, I, want to cry, I, want to be angry. And yet I sit here… In […]

Anger Poem (to be recited with clenched teeth)

9 Comments / Poetry for Surviors / By Amy Marschak / December 7, 2010

Anger
Rage
Everything
Pent up inside

Driving Back from Grandma’s House Poem

4 Comments / Poetry for Surviors / By Amy Marschak / December 7, 2010

I remember when I was little
We would be coming home
From grandma’s house
And I couldn’t take being in the car anymore

“My Story”

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"Absolutely brilliant, touching and
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"An Angel Cried A Tear Last Night"

My play about how I began to
Remember and heal from the abuse.
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