Dedicated to those that did not survive.
The Moonsongs Collection
Will I Lose You?
Honeychild
My Sweet Rose
Thrive Anyway
(a howl-esque)
Caution: Triggers
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I see a little girl ravaged by a father’s beer-stinking idea of what love is while his second or third wife beats her for her promiscuity; such a little vamp at the age of five.
I see her mother pretend that her perfect little girl in the matching coat, shoes and hat is happy, so shut up with those dirty tales from your overactive Sarah-Bernhardt imagination, just stop and let me have my weekends and summers away from a child.
I see a child look at her and think, “I used to be a child.”
I see her thrive, anyway.
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THE MOONSONGS COLLECTION
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These #poems were written between ~1990 and 2003 to heal #trauma. #writing is incredibly therapeutic and I recommend it. I never meant to show these to anyone, but in 2000 I decided to start building a website: “Songs from the Dark Side of the Moon.” I was free from the pain now, and free from the addictions that were a coping mechanism during the worst of it. Now, I was looking back with “20/20 hindsight” to understand.
Ambivalence
AMBIVALENCE
For the chained and battered,
with my love and prayers for healing,
and freedom.
Moonsongs.net 