Ok to be fragile

“You handled it so well.” —

Yes, because no one noticed

the quiet tears I wiped away

when no one was looking.

No one heard

the loud screams

echoing inside my head,

the ones I buried deep so

no one would ask

if I was okay.

I learned to smile,

to keep it all together

when inside I felt like

I was falling apart.

I didn’t ask for help

because I was too

used to being the

one people leaned on.

No one saw the

weight I carried,

but I carried it

nonetheless,

hoping one day

it would get lighter.

Through

all those silent battles,

I found a quiet strength

I never knew I had.

I became my own

shoulder to lean on,

my own hand

to hold when

the nights felt too long.

It wasn’t easy,

but I survived.

I’m still here,

and somehow that

feels like victory.

I’m not unbreakable,

but I’ve learned

that it’s okay

to be fragile and

still stand tall.

Maybe

that’s what real strength is—

continuing even when the world

doesn’t see the war you’re fighting.

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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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