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Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you.

Sep 24, 2014 By Elin Stebbins Waldal 24 Comments

Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you.

Dear Fear, I am breaking up with you. It’s over. Seriously. I’m done. Pack up your self-defeating attitude and go. Thanks, Elin For years too many to count I have been riding shotgun to this thing called FEAR. Don’t get me wrong I am not afraid to use my voice, that’s a fear I thankfully overcame years […]

Filed Under: Facing Fear Tagged With: Breaking up, Facing Fear, Fear

Upon My Devotion

Oct 9, 2012 By elinwaldal Leave a Comment

Upon My Devotion

Upon My Devotion Upon my devotion you spread your anger with the world I now suffer You thought you were safe or perhaps you thought I wouldn’t stop kidding myself Memories well up your ice-green eyes bulging your once soft hands twisting, shoving, pinning, my body…my mind Close to three years fear bound me to […]

Filed Under: Writing Tagged With: Abuse, Abuse Survival, Breaking up, Poetry, Teen Dating Violence, Writing

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