Tag: abuse
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What happened?
As a child of abuse I’m still trying to find Who I am Outside the walls Of dysfunction. As a child of abuse I live in survival. Fear every shoe fall. What’s round the next corner? As a child of abuse, Restrained, arms distance. Vulnerability, too risky. Tears? Laughter? Unsafe. As a survivor of abuse,…
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Transgenerational Trauma – a crime
My father, only child. Big brother, stillborn. Missed out on childhood. High expectations. My father’s mother adored her boy. Germans blitzed London; Evacuated to safety. Countryside, strangers. Scared and lonely. My father’s mother took a lover. Sick with TB, he infected my father. Child convalescing, miles from home. Sad and lonely. Abandoned again. My father,…
To The Core 