Then here's my offering. I don't know if it's the sort of song that goes in the book but it's mine and writing it helped me at the time.

HALF WRITTEN LETTER

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Just a half written letter,
To a friend I once knew,
Packed away with my dreams,
Of what I meant to do

I was writing to tell her,
Now that I was a wife,
Of my baby son growing ,
'Bout the joy in my life,
But now all it triggers,
Is sadness and tears,
Shed for all of those dreams,
That I lost though the years,

Chorus

Not a person to my husband,
Not marriage but despair,
I was just a possession,
Not for me did he care,
But the thing that cased changes,
The one final straw,
Was when I realised,
I couldn't find me anymore

chorus

Now I'm gradually learning,
To dream once again,
To take time to be me,
Joy and laughter reclaimed,
I can share when I chose to
I have learn't to be strong,
Rediscovering myself,
Who I was all along.

chorus

There is a tune - but I don't do the dots thing - so it'll have to wait until later
Jude