Positivity after Surviving Abuse. Copyright 1984. Carol Koenig Stoodley. Unpublished works. All Rights Reserved.
EVERY MINUTE
Every minute with you meant an hour of pain
Every second of sunshine a full day of rain
Every beautiful flower just part of a wreath
to comfort me through the ultimate grief
Every beat of my heart hammered my mind
into thinking your cruelty an effort in kind
Every prayer for justice a hole in my heart
that succeeded in pushing us further apart
I look back without anger it wasn't in vain
I know there's a reason I suffered this pain
I know that is wasn't a waste of my time
I will never be yours nor, thank God,
will you ever be mine.
A book-length psychodynamic study of pathological narcissism, relationships
with abusive narcissists, and the Narcissistic Personality Disorder, using a new vocabulary.