Poetry


Waiting For That Day

I was weeks shy of seven When my innocence was taken to Heaven That day I went through Hell And I didn’t know how to tell. If you witnessed what I saw You would support Erin’s Law. Having to face that six in a half year old Fifteen years later telling her you told. Entering […]


Warning: May Trigger Many Please Read with Caution

On a cold January 1992 day I went to my friends to play. Toys scattered the floor As he walked in and closed the door. He locked anyone from coming in From allowing the outside to see his sin. Forcing a little girl to the bed I trembled at what he said. “I will tie […]


July 25th, 1999

The following is a diary entry part of it is published in my first book Stolen Innocence on page 80.  I came upon this tonight. This is the portion I did not publish in my first book. July 25th, 1999 @ 10:30pm I have been praying to Jesus to help me. I sit here right […]


My Biggest Enemy

My biggest enemy is not the man that raped me as a child nor is it the relative that molested me for a year and a half. While I have the face of the man that raped me and the relative that molested me burned into my memory I don’t know what my biggest enemy […]


WIU Alumni Newspaper Article

My first time speaking October 2004 Click on photo to read article. The article is mailed out in a newspaper to 98,500 Alumni from WIU. This picture was taken October 2007 with my sister my last Take Back The Night as a WIU student. I find it interesting that the video above shows the first […]



Book Signing

Meet Author Erin Merryn Author Event Meet author Erin Merryn. She will discuss and sign copies of Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness. This is Erin’s second book. She has her MSW and works as a family therapist. Sunday November 15, 2009 4:00 PM IL/Chicago/Oakbrook Center 297 Oakbrook Center, Oak […]


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