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NoOne Hears NoOne Sees
I am just an ordinary woman... Noone Special, no titles no money...just a simple middle-aged woman. Yet I am a Phoenix rising out if the ashes of Despair and Torment to Rise , To Breathe, To Feel FREE, to FLY. For now, in my 40's, I have found love. I have found peace. I am free To BE me to love me. I m free to tell my truth.
I was unwanted, unloved, and abandoned. My every moment was controlled with constant threat of punishment. I was hungry daily for nineteen years. I was afraid to ask for a glass of water so I would drink out of the bathroom sink. The gifts I so cherished from a distant family member were slowly snuck away from me one at a time until I had Nothing left. My clothes didn't fit me and were ugly and old free clothes from the church. We ate almost raw chicken three nights or more for dinner with iceburgh lettuce. I was malnourished. My height grew tall but my belly was always hurting swollen up. I had severe stomaches cramping and digestive problems that would make me ball up in pain on the floor when I did eat well. I was made to scrub my teeth, gums, tongue and cheeks with a bar of soap and leave it on for five minutes. When I fractured my wrist at 12, I begged, sobbing, for a full hour for my parents to take me to the Dr. I watched my father grab my three year-old brother by the neck and throw him into the wall for being too loud. Around the age of 7 (4 years after my stepmom joined myself and dad) I somehow...