My Heart Hurts

A Poem

I can’t see the light

it dimmed & now flickers

My duty to educate the future

now seems a futile effort

I know all is not lost, but

it sure feels like it

Abuse, both verbal & physical

is a story all on its own

I don’t know what to do

so I wrote this poem, hoping

for answers in a genre, I find

comfort & security, I guess

this poem is it