Thousand Petals of the Heart

You cut me I bleed; you hit me I bruise. You love me I run. Telling the story about a young girl that was abused at a young age. Sooner or later she escaped the horrors of her past, but when she starts to feel the emotion called love, she cowers in fear. Because sometimes love is what breaks someone rather than pain. ... His fist pounds at me over and over again his anger is irrefutable and unavoidable. He is my father, so I cannot leave him, and my mother loves him so I cannot leave her. She claims she loves him, but like me, she is beaten and never leaves him. He claims us as his property, but he never allows me outside. My mother can come and go as she pleases her wounds never seen and her pain never shown. She shows a smile and leaves home and returns with an even brighter smile and a bag full of booze, but very little food. Father comes home making a ruckus and claims that it is not his fault...