Uninvited Friend

THE UNINVITED FRIEND

I have an uninvited friend.

She came to my door last night, again, and I almost pretended to be out.

But it was too late, she saw me peering through the blinds and she can sense my energy anyway.

I let my friend in and she wrapped her arms around me, uninvited.

We stayed there like that, quietly, just some sobbing, some sighing and a little silent crying.

Without saying a single word, my friend gave me three things.

She gave me a hug, she gave me some ice-cream (my favourite kind) and most of all, she gave me back my hope.

I had lost it again you see, outside somewhere.

And she found it, like she always does.

And brought it back to me, uninvited.

I hope you have an uninvited friend, like mine.

I can’t imagine life without one.

Donna Ashworth

This poem is from my book ‘wild hope’ and I wrote it because so many of you send my books as gifts to one another, in the hope of reclaiming that hope. What a thing ♥️

Art by the wonderful The Anne Virlange – artiste peintre #annevirlange ❤️

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Author: GreatCosmicMothersUnited

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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