Tag: trauma
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Drowning
Sad, Deflated. Disappointed, Invalidated. Seeking connection, To lift the depression. Deny, Suppress. Avoid, Repress. Chronically busy, Ignoring reality. Hide, Be Still. Tensed, Invisible. Jittery feeling, Anxiety building. Panic, Fear. Shutdown, Disappear. Alarmed aloneness, Everyone’s Oblivious. Numb, Freeze. No space to breathe. 🌻
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Now what? …
Now I sit to write a verse. Knotted throat, preventing outburst of energy trapped from past generations. How to move on, find liberation? Speak up! Find voice! Curiosity? a brave choice. What happened to you? to ancestors, family? What did you do to deserve this destiny? Pain is increasing, tightness in chest. A heavy dark…
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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,…
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Trans-generational Trauma – a love story 💛
Disconnection – Mother, daughter. Stern and distant. Antiquated formality, Scarcity. Seen but not heard. Union – Husband, wife. Care and devotion. Everything to each other. To Love and to Cherish. Offspring – Mother, son. Heartache of stillborn; Burden of boy. Overwhelm, Lonely and unfulfilled. Infidelity – Black sheep, lover. Relief from searching. Tuberculosis, terminal. Why?…
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Transgenerational Trauma – an intro
Ancestral wounds, Unresolved. Passed down, From parent to child. Unwanted Inheritance. Not mine to carry. Break under the weight, Of Expectations. Mother to daughter. Father to son. The cycle continues. Victim becomes perpetrator. Listen to the stories. Unearth the patterns. Live unencumbered. Heal the future. 🌻
To The Core 