Brickbats and Backhanded Compliments

Hello! herbgirl here for a review!
To begin, this was very well laid out. You seem to have a good grasp on your topic, and are fairly good at conveying it to your audience. There were few places where i was confused. i felt the length of this poem was just perfect, also.
Now, you said to tear this poem up. i'll do my best! Sorry in advance if anything sounds rude, or doesn't make sense, let me know and i'll try to clear things up a bit.
Firstly, i like your idea of putting words the character is afraid to talk about in a different font. If you wanted to include that here, i think you could take a screenshot of the original work and upload it. i'm no expert on that, but it's an option. However, i didn't like how you had to explain the purpose of those emphasized words. An author's writing is meant to convey ideas on it's own, without the author being there to support and explain it. That's the real power of writing. i'm not quite sure what you could do, but try making the purpose of those emphasized words clearer, if possible.
Second,your rhyme scheme didn't seem quite natural to me. It worked in most stanzas, but in some the rhythm seemed off, and so the rhymes didn't quite line up. Your fifth stanza in particular seemed off. i suggest going back through and just reading this poem, maybe out loud, and seeing if the flow sounds natural to you. If not, adjust the number of syllables in the offending lines until it seems they do flow well.
My other major piece of advice for you would be to add more figurative language, and more emotion. You have some figurative, regarding the bruises, and i found that fairly effective. i also liked the line about exiting at the cue, it was unique. However, most of the emotions in this poem didn't quite seem as though they were being interpreted uniquely, and felt a little repetitive. i would love to see more added regarding emotions, especially with figurative language. Compare how the character's feeling to flowers fruit, rain, anything. There's a lot you can do with this sort of pain, and it seems to me that so far you've just touched the tip of the iceberg.
Finally, as your reading through this again, keep an eye out for grammatical errors. You had a few commas that seemed a little out of place, and some of your lines didn't make sense, most likely because you had to adjust them to keep the rhyme scheme. Just look through and see if there's anything obvious you can change.
Anyways, keep up the good work! You have a good base here, but i think there's a lot you could add.
Thanks for the read!
herbgirl

LadyShadows here to review today!
Hello I hope you've had a great day.
My initial thought is the fact that this was a very beautiful poem. It's flat out gorgeous. It shows a cruel society the fact that abuse is out there, and it's sad that people don't even think it exists. Ironically, those are the abusers. This poem shows strength. It's the voice for the people who don't have one. If words could be made of materials rather than the vibrations of our throats or the graphite from a pencil, this poem would be made of iron. It's terrific. Now going on...
This poem had some good flow to it. I thought it also wasn't too wordy as well. However the parts 'The cycle' 'The effect' and 'the after' was not necessary in my opinion, and that's because the poem is already showing these without even using these phrases. Basically speaking, the poem had something that you pointed out that it was in fact already pointing out. Pretty much this poem did get to the point enough as it was.
Now with any other comments that I have, I simply hope that you did not have to go through this kind of thing in your life. In my opinion, abuse is abuse. It's never fun. Godspeed and keep writing!