Nameless Dead Ascend/ Mad in America

Poem of the Week: “When the Lunatics Arise” by Bonnie Schell

Excerpt:

The nameless dead ascend, limp forward then soar, breaking through the thin clouds.

They rise, shouting their full names into the skies.

And drift from numbered body to body whispering, “It is safe. It is safe.”

Shackled, sterilized, lobotomized, now upright the strangers stand, meet and greet their peers

From across the land – 300,000 acres – of public asylums and state hospitals.

From deep valleys they arise, levitating above the priests with their liturgies of exorcism,

And the doctors with their Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals.

They run up the hills and are not weary. They fly and do not tire or fall.

Look up! Open your SUV and condo windows. Crook your neck and see!

All the shunned ones, missing from scrapbooks, removed from Ancestry trees,

All the ones who swallowed secrets, stuttered, became silent

All the ones never invited to the weddings, graduations, birthdays, bar mitzvahs, and death beds, Deprived of connection, now say “Hello you.”

Read the full poem here: https://www.madinamerica.com/2024/10/when-lunatics-arise-bonnie-schell/

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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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