“No longer do I bleed
Nor children bear
An unseen enigma
That arouses fear
But listen closely
When I say these words
I’m now more powerful
With a scream that
Pierces the veil as
I grab hold of a potency
You’ll never see coming
Ignore me, berate me
But don’t turn your back on me for
I’m rising into a power
You can’t even imagine
Much less see or understand
You’ll beg for my days of bleeding
My days of fertility
My days of youth and motherhood
For those you could control
Too late, those parts are
Transitioning and destined
To be held in the past with my old life
I am a new woman becoming
A woman who holds
Her wise blood within
And with that comes a wisdom
And power that should send
Chills through you as
I lift my skirts and let lose
A guttural scream
As the new me births
For I am free
I am Finally free!”
Poem: Menopause as Rebellion, Arlene Bailey ©2022. Poem from the upcoming anthology from Girl God Books, The Crone Initiation and Invitation: Women Speak on the Menopause Journey.
Art: Aleah Chapman
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I have joined with many parents affected with the surreal , yet accepted issue of child abuse via Pathogenic Parenting / Domestic abuse.
As a survivor of Domestic Abuse, denial abounded that 3 sons were not affected. In my
desire to be family to those who have found me lacking . As a survivor of psychiatric abuse, therapist who abused also and toxic prescribed medications took me to hell on earth with few moments of heaven.
I will share my life, my experiences and my studies and research.. I will talk to small circles and I will council ; as targeted parents , grandparents , aunts , uncles etc. , are
denied contact with a child for reasons that serve the abuser ...further abusing the child.
I grasp the trauma and I have looked at the lost connection to a higher power..
I grasp when one is accustomed to privilege, equality can feel like discrimination..
Shame and affluence silences a lot of facts , truths that have been labeled "negative".
It is about liberation of the soul from projections of a alienator , and abuser ..
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