Soaked in Open: A CSA Poem | Love, Life, and Relationships ...

I woke up last week, wanting to write a poem in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month. April is also National Poetry Month.?I am a prolific writer. I wrote a piece with the theme parenting wisdom?that is going to be published in a major project. I wrote 1800 words entirely without coming up for air but this poem stopped right where it wanted to. Then I thought, well maybe the poem is short enough to put a piece of it on my business voicemail.

So I changed my warm greeting to the poem that I am about to share with you and you know what? It did not fit an excerpt, it allowed me to say the entire poem, inflection and all from the beginning word to the last.

It was exactly the right timing. I do not know who this poem is for but I pray that you are able to receive it in love. If you want to actually hear the poem, you are more than welcome to call the business voicemail now at: 202.717.7377 (RESS) it will be there for the entire month of April 2012.

Un-Elevated; paralyzed by snares

Hallucinating aloneness; empty by capacity-

in fact we?re fashionably hidden,

sentenced by crime;

unaware of confinement in a catastrophe

with small self mutilating incisions ? completely livid inside.

I remember.

Being fingered at four.

Yeah, I know it wasn?t my fault;

being kissed like an adult

woman.

I remember the sores.

And because this design of the brain was not God intended,

I experienced a lifetime of pain in those six minutes.

Whether I forgive him or not,

my life was finished.

A new experience began, where that one ended.

My mind was different,

but I didn?t understand why.

A true fortune teller,

God visited me a nine.

He gave me a language to which I can rely,

showed me things that helped me to develop untied.

Nothing hocus pocus, I?m talkin? soaked in OPEN.

- Ressurrection Graves

Author, Speaker, Poet

Child Sexual Abuse Advocate

Relationship Mentor

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Ressurrection Graves is a relationship mentor who advocates on behalf of child sexual abuse awareness, prevention and healing. She maintains a blog at: www.ressurrection.wordpress.com Ressurrection is an author and speaker with a passion to share relationship strategies to promote healthy interpersonal relationships. She has a particular interest in helping single men and women prepare for and attract "the one." Please follow up with Ressurrection at: www.ressurrection.wordpress.com You can connect with Ressurrection by clicking on Facebook and Twitter from the blog.

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