A Child Abuse Survivors Group Community Group
We survived child abuse, but the pain still remains and so do the other effects which can last a lifetime. We are often unable to find adequate help, and we are seeking answers that can help us understand what happened so that we can go on to lead normal lives. (Please note that this is a group for child abuse survivors only. If you are a professional in the mental health...
The following are poems and quotations for survivors of child abuse. Please feel free to add anything you have to this discussions topic.
-Author Unknown
Make me poet laureate
For the world that writhes in pain
For the child sucked out of the womb
For the prisoner in chains
For those who die in thousands
While the rich sort out their scores
For the unknown disappeared
In those boring foreign wars.
Make me poet laureate
For the stranger in the land
For the daughter who is raped
At her father’s evil hand.
For the runaway who sleeps
On a mattress made of stone
For the worker out of work
Left to waste away at home.
Make me poet laureate
For the victim no one hears
For every child that’s battered
While its screams are gagged by fear.
For those too weak to argue
For those who have no tongue
For those too old to matter
In a world that loves the young.
Make me poet laureate
For the beggar at the gate
For those who cry for justice
But are told they have to wait.
Not for presidents and queens
Who are overwhelmed by choice
But for those whose mouths are stopped –
Those who can’t afford a voice.
-Steve Turner (1949 – Present). Born in England. Biographer, journalist, poet.
-Hodding Carter, Junior
When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns,
As every one of us sometimes learns,
And many a fellow turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
You may succeed with another blow.
Often the goal is nearer than
It seems to a faint and faltering man;
Often the struggler has given up
When he might have captured the victor's cup;
And he learned too late when the night came down,
How close he was to the golden crown.
Success is failure turned inside out -
The silver tint in the clouds of doubt,
And you never can tell how close you are,
It might be near when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.
-Author Unknown
Bundles of it to All,
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-Frank Harris
Practice the patience others will value.
Practice caring for it is a reward within itself.
Practice tolerance for it opens your eyes.
Practice self love, without it you cannot love others.
Practice acceptance for that is what you long for.
-Me
I try to look inside but who do I see,
I see a shell that suppose to have been Me,,
I was not able to Grow,
I was not able to See,
I was not able to be Free,
A prison of Pain & a Wall of Hurt,
I feel like I should Be Living in Dirt,
But I am not going to let You Stop Me,
You will not see the Pain You brought Me,
One Day, I will truly be Me.
Author: alive47
Everything will work out.
Things will get better.
You are important.
YOu are worthy of great things.
You are loveable.
The time is now.
This too, shall pass.
You can be who you really are.
The best is yet to come.
You are strong.
You can do this.
We believe what we tell ourselves."
~ Doe Zantamata
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time. Be yourself. Take kindly the counsels of years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be; and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
-Max Ehrman