Keep On Sailing

By SIACANADY

Keep On Sailing is a poetry book composed of poems about love, romance, break-up, healing, breakthrough and ascension. Inspired by personal traumatic events, the author aspires to make victors out of victims and healers out of the hurt all while reminding us that we are all the same, that we are never alone.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Mar 3, 2018
• ISBN: 9781387635368

Book preview

Portobello

Thunder

i was only but nine

when you took me

down,

and into the basement

they said the boogie

man was not real

but there he was

standing over me.

had i known

he would have

come to revisit me

four years later,

i would have said

something that day.

so maybe it was

my own fault

that he reappeared,

see you cannot

get rid of a monster

by pretending

he isn’t there

i learned that the only

thing more scary than

the boogie man is the

one telling you not to

be afraid of him.

in fear of isolation

i had let my demons stay

so when i wanted company

they would come out to play

—pin dolls & needles

you told me to cover my eyes

if i ever got scared,

but what you did not know was that

i had learned to live with my demons

long before you came.

in that very same room

you came to visit me in.

in that very same room,

you came to lay yours to rest,

in me

i hate you for hurting me

i hate me for letting you do it

i hate you for making me believe it was right

i knew it was wrong

but you said it was right

you told me to lie

"no mommy that’s incest"

it hurt

i bled

i cried

i could not sit

i could not eat

i was not me.

and for the next four years

they taunted me.

they haunted me.

they blamed me.

they shamed me.

the black shadows would

strap me to my bed and

rape me of my innocence,

like you did that night,

as those hollow-less walls

locked in my screams,

silencing my voice from

the world behind them.

day in & day out. repeat.

my soul was elsewhere,

my own personal