an unwanted touch,
an unhealthy advance,
not understanding the feeling
the response of my flesh.
nothing I asked for
not spoken out loud
the touch of a stranger
a violation somehow.
decades before speaking
before bringing it to light
carrying a fading memory
but present to this day.
================
edited November
12, 2017
behind a mask –
v2
November 11, 2017
behind a mask
the allegations
in the news about
Alabama Senate
candidate Roy Moore
and a flood of memories
and feelings
&
edited November 12, 2017
the smell of the smoke – 2 – v4
edited June 6, 2015
the smell of the smoke – 2 – v3
(merging edits to original and version
2)
edited November 12, 2017
the scorch of fire – v3
edited May 29, 2015
the scorch of fire – v2
edited May 23, 2015
the scorch of the fire
edited May 22, 2015
the smell of the smoke – 2 – v2
May 21, 2015
the smell of the smoke - 2
May 19, 2015 and May 20, 2015
Focus on the Family
radio broadcasts
Helping Your Husband Overcome Childhood Sexual Abuse
(Part 1 of 2)
see transcript:
Helping Your Husband Overcome Childhood Sexual Abuse
(Part 2 of 2)
With Guests Cecil Murphey
and Gary Roe
The piece that caught my attention was the statements
about God placing hands on the side of the boy’s heart while being sexually
abused.
Unlike the story of the fiery furnace in Daniel
3:1-30, where Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego had no smell of smoke on them,
victims of sexual abuse do have the smell of the smoke of that evil upon them,
even as God was with them in the fire.
&
edited November
12, 2017
an unwanted touch
– v2
August 20, 2014
an unwanted touch
Devozine for August
18, 2014 to August 24, 2014
“+sexual struggles”
&
Habakkuk 3:1
(GNT)
devotion: “Sexual
Abuse”
national abuse
hotline
1-800-656-4673
devotion by Kerri
Voegeli
for August 19,
2014
read August 19,
2014
&
edited November
12, 2017
I can understand
their anger – v2
November 18, 2011
I can understand
their anger
&
edited November
12, 2017
A box around
these memories – v2
November 18, 2011
A box around
these memories
&
edited November
12, 2017
A Walled off
Place – v2
November 18, 2011
A Walled-off
Place
&
edited November
12, 2017
Under the Veil of
Silence – v3
November 18, 2011
Under the Veil of
Silence – v2
November 18, 2011
Under the Veil of
Silence
&
edited November
12, 2017
Open the Sealed
Records – v2
November 18, 2011
Open the Sealed
Records
&
edited November
12, 2017
On that Altar of
Football – v2
November 18, 2011
On that Altar of
Football
&
edited November
12, 2017
When we worship
false Gods – v2
November 18, 2011
When we worship
false Gods
&
edited November
12, 2017
At the trough of
their power – v2
November 18, 2011
At the trough of
their power
Sandusky sexual
abuse scandal
and
re-victimizing the children
in hearing his
defense and seeing him
on the sidelines
of the Penn State football games
over and over
again
and the same for
all adult victims of sexual abuse
hearing these
words and these images
and failure of
Penn State to release all documents
regarding the
scandal
&
edited November
12, 2017
For me, a
stranger – v2
November 18, 2011
For me, a
stranger
&
edited November 12, 2017
Family Secrets – Revised – v4
edited January 10, 2016
Family Secrets – Revised – v3
(merging edits to original and version
2)
edited September 2, 2015
Family Secrets – Revised – v2
6/17/2004
Family Secrets - Revised
In 1973, the same year
my grandmother died, I was touched inappropriately
by a stranger on a bike
path between my house and the bottle dump where
I liked to go digging.
It was over 25 years before I mentioned it to anyone.
All of my poems,
photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 2000, 2001, 2002,
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015,
2016, and 2017. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See
all 45,440 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com
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