My name is Karen Murphy. I am 17 years old and live in Western Australia. My Parents divorced when I was 10 and when I was 12 my Grandfather moved in with my Father. He sexually abused me from the age of 12 to 14. It ended when my mother read my diary and pulled me out of the house. I charged him shortly after and he was found guilty on two accounts of indecent dealings in 2007. The poems you are reading are the poems I wrote during this period in order to aid my recovery. As you can see they are spilt up into two main sections depicting the two main stages of the recovery process. These poems shed significant light on many of my hardships and helped me soldier on and see the point to the war I was fighting when I needed it most. I hope they can help you in some way as they have helped me.