Somebodies Child

They do not call us orphans,

Not when we stand tall in the world –

Not when we sign papers and pay bills,

Not when grief slips into our pockets

Like loose change we never meant to carry.

But we are –

Orphans of an age,

Left to navigate without the voices

That once guided us home.

No one warns us that loss reshapes the air,

That their name will sit in our throats,

That love doesn’t vanish – only echoes,

Soft and relentless, in everything they touched.

We catch ourselves searching –

In the tilt of our reflection,

In the way our hands move like theirs did,

In old letters, old recipes, old stories

That suddenly feel too heavy to hold.

People will say, ‘They’d be so proud of you.’

As if pride could fill the silence,

As if knowing that could make it hurt less.

But even in the emptiness,

Even with no parent left to be seen,

We are not untethered.

We are still carried in the love that made us.

We are still,

And will always be –

Somebody’s child.

Heather Lea

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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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