Wasted Days and Wasted Nights

Wasted days and wasted nights…
is what so many of us have lived…
staying with someone who abuses us…
while so much of ourselves we give.
But so little is reciprocated…
and never an apology is given…
but we give and give in love…
with all their outbursts forgiven.
For somehow we get the blame…
and shoulder their responsibility…
even though we are innocent…
and they walk with no accountability.
But those wasted days and wasted nights…
will one day come to an end…
when we finally have enough…
and allow a new life to begin.
For our new life will begin…
when we choose to walk away…
and finally make the decision…
that with an abuser we will not stay.

© Secret Angel and The Abuse Expose’ with Secret Angel, 2020.