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I Want Victims Of Childhood Abuse To Share Their Poetry

today
I saw someone who remembered me
we started to talk
and I realized he remembered me
before him
before his hands
before my body ached

He remembered a me
who could not lie
who did not know how
who's eyes were a window
not shutters on my soul

He remembered me
before virginity was a question
and innocence was stolen

He remembered me
before I was frozen in time
I wish he knew me now
maybe he could tell me who I used to be
and show me how to get back

I want to remember me
"Me" before him
before it
I want to remember how that felt

Tell me - I pleaded
what was I like
before he, umm, well you know
please tell me

And than I realized
he can’t help me
because
"Me" doesn't mean what it used to
"Me" doesn't feel like it used to
"Me" is just another thing
frozen in time
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Interested1 · 26-30, M
Writing this poem makes you look like a child molester first read through it does not describe any other characters but your views on child abuse and how you've experienced it, not surprisingly because it looks like the experience of a child molester.
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@Interested1 You wrote this last summer, almost a year ago so maybe you are no longer here. I am appalled at this response. It is the response of a victim of a child molester. Maybe you should read it again, try to get the "feel" of what a victim feels. The boy who wrote this poem wrote it as a way to heal, to find himself. I have no idea how a child molester feels--but I know how the child feels. Your comment was hurtful and inappropriate.
Interested1 · 26-30, M
"it does not describe any other characters but your views on child abuse and how you've experienced it"
If written by an adult which this poem is (in fact) its airy and blunt doesn't give away trauma or explain shame it points the reader to pose 'this adult author must be describing experiences of a child (not any specific) and which type of adult would know of such experience A.the victim B. the molester'.

Little WolfKiller are you serious? go cry to your Mother and Daddy this is the INTERNET all and everything will be ridiculed there is NO shame online FREE SPEECH its legal bitch.

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OH LA LA some 80 year old humanist wants to tell me off because I'm hurtful ART has many interpretations bitch and I interpret your comment to me as
non progressiste-peu éclairé
The boy is 18. So I guess he is technically an adult. He is recovering from trauma and now lives at a horse farm where he has been for the past 3 1/2 years. I am assisting in the publication of his collection of poetry. O btw I know him. You don't know him.
shadowplay · 26-30, M
@Interested1 your right it's the internet and everyone is entitled to their opinion. you sound like a child molester playing the blame and shame the victim game. you give only two options ,what about the survivor? this was written to illicit responses ,so thanks for yours .now go climb back up whatever tree your ancestors fell out of.how you like free speech? ,BITCH. it was written by a 15 year old survivor. not a molester,not a victim .they say opinions are like assholes ,everyone has one and yours stinks .
Interested1 · 26-30, M
Shadowplay and his Circular reasoning can kiss my back cheek.

Hey Humanist O btw I didnt know u were a Unitarian Universalist Minister. I admire that specific faith so much. Apologies for being a nuisance . Bye Bye.
shadowplay · 26-30, M