Red on White- the truth behind disassociation - victims of abuse
I was sitting here this evening, exhausted from a long two days of writing for deadline day at my job...stressed about some personal things ...it was just a half an hour ago and I was attempting to zone out to an episode of Hell's Kitchen on Hulu.... and that's when it happened - an email appeared in my inbox to my email account connected to this blog. When I opened it up I found a poem sent to me by a stranger - someone unknown to me. However, even though her name and email address were not familiar to me, the emotion in her poem was. It is a piece that speaks to something just about any survivor of physical or sexual abuse will know...it doesn't matter if the abuse happened as a child or as an adult - if your body and soul suffered a trauma you survived from, you will understand it. These were the words that greeted me in that email.... Red on White I look down at her This woman that I used to know I know what happened I was once there, inside her Yet I can'