Survivor Story
Now That I Don’t Need You
I don’t hate you anymore
Now that I don’t need you
I don’t want to hit you in the head
Or slap your face
Or shake sense into your brain
Now that I don’t need you
I don’t want to report you,
Punish you and cut you
Now that I don’t need you
I don’t really care about your suffering
I know you suffered and caused suffering
But what does it matter?
Now that I don’t need you
The elusive love will never come…
Not from you, not from others
Love for me, comes
from me now
And that’s why I don’t need you any more
- Laurie Panther, she/her
I am the last person of my seven-member family of origin. The abuse of all and every possible nature was too toxic for survival. Except I managed it through truth-telling. And I continue.
