Those wounds deeply inflicted
are the ones that never heal.
The verbal mental abusing
is the worst pain you ever feel.
You don't always remember
every brutal hit and smack.
But the spoken beatings you receive
are the unseen scars of attack.
The physical suffering is bad enough
you can hide your marks and welts.
But those horrible worded tortures
remain longer than the effect of that belt.
The vicious pummeling on your body
heals along with time.
Not so for the many unseen scars.
they stay forever in your mind.