~
You cannot return
to defile
the birthing of intimacy
within you.
~
My body is not a graffiti wall
absorbing the mark
of your disconnect.
~
The lack of boundaries you impose
will never dissuade the love
that takes us continually back to itself
as it births us anew.
~
Hear me
~
I am you.
But in this act
of willful indifference
you
are
not
me
~
this seed, so stung
germinating without sun
grown from biting roots
ungrounded in pain
birthing emptiness
returns to earth as dust
as dust
as dust
“”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
One Billion Rising
This poem was written for everyone who has been sexually abused….men, women and children. It is also for the abusers…those who clothe their own sorrow in indifference.
It is not a poem of exclusion. It is statement of strength and a prayer for the return to a sense of self and connection.
All aspects of sexual abuse come from the same seed. A seed that needs to lay fallow, bleach in the sun, and return to the earth as dust.
“”””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””””
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Poetry of Light 
I hear your
courageous words
~
aching trusts
echo
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How we choose to write on another and who we choose to call ourselves: the first is easy enough, the second too easy to fall into.
I hope you are, she is, or he is okay.
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Thank you DawnPoints.
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Very powerful. I hear the branches shaking and some fall to the ground. You have very strong experiences and value them.
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This is so poignant; I can relate to the subject so well. A powerful piece! You write with such emotional honesty.
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If I’m heard this is really all that counts. Healing is a personal matter but change is in the hands of us all.
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Oh, this is beautiful. I love the strong place you write from.
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Once again I am reminded of a quote that suits this poem beautifully…..
There is a wonderful, simple conversation encoded in all poems worthy of the name: “You’ve felt this, too,
haven’t you?” ~Carol Rumens
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Two quotes by Carol Rumens. I follow your lead, EDR33. She’s been in my blind spot.
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