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Broken Heart, Poetry
Published on August 3, 2019

Survivor’s Warm-Up

written by Linda Hala
woman learning she's a survivor doing a survivor's warm-up

A fighter always has an opponent.

They warm up before a fight.

And round after round

somehow I knew your charm

to be short-lived and superficial

because my heartache

was ready with alarm

for the next round.

My warm-up was knowledge

and yours was a con

Featured Image Credit: TONL

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Tagged with: abuse poetry, getting over abuse, poetry about abuse, surviving abuse
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