#Triggered #poetry #God #regeneration #childhood #bullies #assault #sin #anger #fight #flight #SachaRiley #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverup

Ripping off scar tissue,
far deeper than Band-Aids,
Layer upon layer,
cut through like butter,
to the kernel of grit inside,
the center of my pain struggle…
 
Triggered in an instant
by the failure of authorities,
those in power, responsible,
to keep each child safe,
to protect the innocent
from the wolves in our midst…
 
An unhealed wound festering,
given oxygen to grow,
feeling vulnerable as before,
the same fight or flight moment,
the cries into my pillow,
the command to fight back…

-----
January 19, 2026
Triggered
 
The Epstein Files and Epstein Coverup
and every act against me, my dignity,
and my sense of self-worth and safety…
January 19, 2026
They did not keep us safe
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/they-did-not-keep-us-safe.html
re:generation, 1^st and 2nd sentence of Groundwork, page 4
Adults at Abner Gibbs Elementary School
1965 - 1971
Edited January 19, 2026
Protect the children – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/protect-children-v2.html
Based on Matthew 18:1-9,
The Epstein Files and Epstein Coverup
January 17, 2026
release me from my response!
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/release-me-from-my-response.html
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 3, “Sober 24 Hours.”
January 17, 2026
free for this day
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/free-for-this-day.html
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 3, “Sober 24 Hours.”
January 15, 2026
mining deeper
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/mining-deeper.html
re:generation, Groundwork, page 4
January 15, 2026
hurt and angry
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/hurt-and-angry.html
re:generation, 1^st and 2nd sentence of Groundwork, page 4
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com 
Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, God, regeneration, childhood, bullies, assault, sin, anger, fight, flight, Sascha Riley, Epstein, Epstein Coverup, Epstein Files,
 
#poetry #God #regeneration #childhood #bullies #assault #sin #anger #fight #flight #SachaRiley #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #EpsteinCoverup 

They did not keep us safe #poetry #God #regeneration #childhood #bullies #assault #sin #anger #fight #flight

They did not keep us safe
on the playground,
in that asphalt jungle…
We were at the mercy of them,
the bullies, our tormentors…
 
They failed all of us,
all the children in their care…
Our only choice to fight back
to stand up to the bullies,
the instruction of our parents…
 
Anger and scar tissue,
over the hurt unanswered,
unaddressed in healthy ways…
Limiting my vision, safety,
the struggle of fight or flight…

-----
January 19, 2026
They did not keep us safe
 
Adults at Abner Gibbs Elementary School
1965 - 1971
January 19, 2026
We are not alone
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/we-are-not-alone-poetry-god-christ.html
Based on Ecclesiastes 4:12
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 5, “You Are Not Alone.”
January 19, 2026
remove every barrier
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/remove-every-barrier.html
Based on 1 Peter 5:10
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 4, “Keep Coming Back.”
January 17, 2026
a life of freedom
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-life-of-freedom.html
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 3, “Sober 24 Hours.”
January 17, 2026
release me from my response!
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/release-me-from-my-response.html
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 3, “Sober 24 Hours.”
January 17, 2026
free for this day
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/free-for-this-day.html
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 3, “Sober 24 Hours.”
edited January 16, 2026
For just today – v4
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/for-just-today-v4.html
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 3, “Sober 24 Hours.”
edited January 16, 2026
every single good thing
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/every-single-good-thing-v2-poetry-god.html
re:generation, Groundwork, Week 1, Day 2, “God Loves You.”
January 15, 2026
mining deeper
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/mining-deeper.html
re:generation, Groundwork, page 4
January 15, 2026
hurt and angry
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2026/01/hurt-and-angry.html
re:generation, 1^st and 2nd sentence of Groundwork, page 4
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com 
Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, God, regeneration, childhood, bullies, assault, sin, anger, fight, flight,
 
#poetry #God #regeneration #childhood #bullies #assault #sin #anger #fight #flight

Family Secrets – Revised – v6

Little and big secrets, hidden,
silence, … not sharing, not honest,
words, stories not spoken,
from shame, for protection, maybe;
Blank spots, missing pieces, broken,
in the telling, retelling, the spaces,
unspoken, of our family’s history…
 
Carved off areas, blank spaces,
sometimes casually shared later
as if we knew, … forgetting the secrets,
the silence, the missing words
in real-time, in our living;
Names crossed from address books
pain pushed down, hidden…
 
Missing memories, omissions,
scraps of childhood, painful,
undiscussed, unspoken, silent,
in the fog of our history;
Moments casually blurted out
when there was no warning, no memory,
forgetting, … that the secrets were spoken…
 
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Edited August 22, 2024
Family Secrets – Revised – v6
 
edited September 13, 2018
Family Secrets – Revised – v5
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/09/family-secrets-revised-v5.html
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1040356391414726656
edited November 12, 2017
Family Secrets – Revised – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/family-secrets-revised-v4.html
edited November 12, 2017
behind a mask – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/behind-mask-v2.html
November 11, 2017
behind a mask
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/behind-mask.html
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
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-smell-of-smoke-2-v4.html
edited June 6, 2015
the smell of the smoke – 2 – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.in/2015/06/the-smell-of-smoke-2-v3.html
(merging edits to original and version 2)
edited May 29, 2015
the scorch of fire – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-scorch-of-fire-v2.html
edited May 23, 2015
the scorch of the fire
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-scorch-of-fire.html
edited May 22, 2015
the smell of the smoke – 2 – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-smell-of-smoke-2-v2.html
May 21, 2015
the smell of the smoke - 2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-smell-of-smoke.html
May 19, 2015 and May 20, 2015
Focus on the Family
https://twitter.com/FocusFamily
https://www.facebook.com/focusonthefamily
http://www.focusonthefamily.com
radio broadcasts
Helping Your Husband Overcome Childhood Sexual Abuse (Part 1 of 2)
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/media/daily-broadcast/helping-your-husband-overcome-childhood-sexual-abuse-pt1
see transcript:
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/media/daily-broadcast/helping-your-husband-overcome-childhood-sexual-abuse-pt1#transcript
Helping Your Husband Overcome Childhood Sexual Abuse (Part 2 of 2)
http://www.focusonthefamily.com/media/daily-broadcast/helping-your-husband-overcome-childhood-sexual-abuse-pt2
With Guests Cecil Murphey and Gary Roe
https://www.facebook.com/gary.roe.79
https://twitter.com/GaryRoeAuthor
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cecil-Murphey/110181285701463
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
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/an-unwanted-touch-v2.html
August 20, 2014
an unwanted touch
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-unwanted-touch.html
Devozine for August 18, 2014 to August 24, 2014
www.devozine.org
“+sexual struggles”
&
Habakkuk 3:1 (GNT)
devotion: “Sexual Abuse”
national abuse hotline
1-800-656-4673
https://ohl.rainn.org/online/
devotion by Kerri Voegeli
https://www.facebook.com/kerri.voegeli
for August 19, 2014
read August 19, 2014
&
edited November 12, 2017
I can understand their anger – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/i-can-understand-their-anger-v2.html
November 18, 2011
I can understand their anger
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-can-understand-their-anger.html
&
edited November 12, 2017
A box around these memories – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-box-around-these-memories-v2.html
November 18, 2011
A box around these memories
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/box-around-these-memories.html
&
edited November 12, 2017
A Walled-off Place – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-walled-off-place-v2.html
November 18, 2011
A Walled-off Place
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/walled-off-place.html
&
edited November 12, 2017
Under the Veil of Silence – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/under-veil-of-silence-v3.html
November 18, 2011
Under the Veil of Silence – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/under-veil-of-silence-v2.html
November 18, 2011
Under the Veil of Silence
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/under-veil-of-silence.html
&
edited November 12, 2017
Open the Sealed Records – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/open-sealed-records-v2.html
November 18, 2011
Open the Sealed Records
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-sealed-records.html
&
edited November 12, 2017
On that Altar of Football – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/on-that-altar-of-football-v2.html
November 18, 2011
On that Altar of Football
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-that-altar-of-football.html
&
November 12, 2017
When we worship false God – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/when-we-worship-false-gods-v2.html
November 18, 2011
We worship false Gods
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/when-we-worship-false-gods.html
&
edited November 12, 2017
At the trough of their power – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/at-trough-of-their-power-v2.html
November 18, 2011
At the trough of their power
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/at-trough-of-their-power.html
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
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/for-me-stranger-v2.html
November 18, 2011
For me, a stranger
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/you-me-stranger.html
&
edited November 12, 2017
Family Secrets – Revised – v4
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/family-secrets-revised-v4.html
edited January 10, 2016
Family Secrets – Revised – v3
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/family-secrets-v3.html
(merging edits to original and version 2)
edited September 2, 2015
Family Secrets – Revised – v2
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/family-secrets-revised-v2.html
6/17/2004
Family Secrets - Revised
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/family-secrets.html
 
=================
Twitter post by President Trump 9/21/18
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1043126336473055235
“I have no doubt that, if the attack on Dr. Ford was as bad as she says, charges would have been immediately filed with local Law Enforcement Authorities by either her or her loving parents. I ask that she bring those filings forward so that we can learn date, time, and place!”
Reply by me 9/21/18
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1043225279307632640
“This tweet shows you have no understanding of childhood sexual assault. I was merely touched inappropriately at 13 & it took 25 years to discuss it with loved ones. I don’t know if Dr. Ford’s allegations are true; but delayed reporting is a hallmark of this kind of abuse. #MeToo”
&
separate post 9/21/18
https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1043255724686684160
“@realDonaldTrump tweet shows no understanding of sexual assault. I was merely touched inappropriately at 13. It took 25 years to discuss it with loved ones. I don’t know if Dr. Ford’s allegations are true; but delayed reporting is a hallmark of this abuse. #MeToo #WhyIDidntReport”
 
 
===========================
note added September 2, 2015
after Skype conversation with a High School class from North Carolina
 
I wrote it in 2001 (or 2000), and edited it in June 2004.
 
One of the things about the family secrets that led to this poem was a casual statement by mother about 1995, when I was 35 years old, I think it was either Thanksgiving or Christmas, that my father's brother had committed suicide about 6 months after his wife and my grandmother died in 1973. It was sort of surreal how it was stated. I was only 13 at that time in 1973. She just said like all of us had always known that. None of my sisters or brothers had ever heard that before either.
 
Another aspect was that, in 1976 when I was 16 years old, I was doing genealogy research and I discovered that my paternal grandfather who was born in 1888, had grown up in an orphanage and that he had been adopted as an adult in 1913 by the founder of the orphanage. I asked my father about it (he was 44 at the time) and he was totally surprised by this revelation. As far as I know he never asked his father about that.
 
Also, 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, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com ) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.
 
God, Spirit, Christ, faith, love, child abuse, assault, sex, power, touch, memory, secret, shame, sexual abuse, Roy Moore, Sandusky, law, children, justice, abuse,
 
#God #faith #love #grace #childabuse #sexual #assault #sex #power #touch #memory #history #mask #hidden #shame #sexualabuse #RoyMoore #Sandusky #law #PennState #children #justice #abuse #family #grooming #poetry #MeToo #secret #hidden #silence #fear #poem

She stood before the camera – v2

Regaining her composure an effort,
but not shrinking from the camera,
Chronicler, the Voyeur,
Silent but soon to speak,
preparing, getting herself ready
a flaring of her nostrils,
quick motion brushing,
tears that would not be silenced,
resolve in the face of this woman,
like so many clients I have known…
 
After the latest attack,
his hands upon her,
her video starting in silence,
pulling herself together
to recorder her manifesto
not shrinking from the camera,
it was her partner, her voice,
her silent witness to her resolve,
that she would rise from the ashes,
that she and her children would be safe…
 
We need to honor her spirit,
to stand with her in this moment,
to acknowledge the hope within her,
giving her time,
standing resolute,
even amid her pain,
standing her ground,
staring into the camera
regaining power somehow
when she was ready to speak...
 

--------------

Edited March 27, 2024

She stood before the camera – v2

 

March 25, 2024

She stood before the camera

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/she-stood-before-camera.html

&

Edited March 25, 2024

Resolute in her defiance – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/resolute-in-her-defiance-v3.html

Edited March 25, 2024

Resolute in her defiance – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/resolute-in-her-defiance-v2.html

March 25, 2024

Resolute in her defiance

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/03/resolute-in-her-defiance.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1772288426726863138

March 25, 2024

post on the Realistic Poetry Twitter page,

https://twitter.com/RealisticPoetry

short video of woman in tears

“How poetic can you be?

Take a few minutes to write a short poem

about what you see! Have fun and be creative!”

https://twitter.com/RealisticPoetry/status/1772284473838879074

https://www.realisticpoetry.com/communitypage/poetry-picture-prompts/how-poetic-can-you-be-15

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 202 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

 

poetry, writing poetry, woman, eyes, crying, cancer, remission, survival, triumph, imagination, art, beauty, power, Realistic Poetry, video writing prompt, writing prompt,

 

#poetry #writingpoetry #woman #eyes #crying #cancer #remission #survival #triumph #imagination #art #beauty #power #RealisticPoetry #videowritingprompt #writingprompt

 

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poetry, writing poetry, woman, eyes, crying, rape, assault, abuse, spousal abuse, victim, survival, triumph, imagination, art, beauty, power, Realistic Poetry, video writing prompt, writing prompt,

 

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Co-parenting with her rapist - v3

Her nightmare unending, each word triggering,
his smirk, his facial expressions a dagger,
her constant pain, PTSD, violence remembered,
co-parenting with her rapist.
 
Afraid of the father of her unwanted child,
but bound to him by law, process, procedures,
mandated by the state, the oppressor,
trying to remain the friendly parent.
 
Knowing all too well his manipulation,
the law’s bias, the pushing, being backed into a corner,
seeking only to love, to raise her children
behind her tears, her brave face.
 
Confined within the strictures, the structure, the laws,
forced to be bound at the hip, co-parenting,
with the Beast at the other table,
his anger which she hates.

 

============

edited May 12, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist-v3.html

edited May 11, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist-v2.html

May 11, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist.html

edited May 11, 2022

Cries of the battered woman – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/cries-of-battered-woman-v4.html

edited September 9, 2015

Cries of the battered woman – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/cries-of-battered-woman-v3_9.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/cries-of-battered-woman-v3.html

(editing version 2)

Edited November 25, 2012

Cries of the battered woman – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/cries-of-battered-woman-v2.html

November 17, 2011

Cries of the battered woman

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/cries-of-battered-woman.html

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.

 

 

Faith, God, love, grace, calling, purpose, power, law, judgment, justice, family, servant, hope, listening, patience, children, family law, divorce, abuse, friendly parent,

 

#Faith #God #love #grace #purpose #power #law #judgment #justice #family #servant

 

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poetry, Faith, God, love, grace, law, judgment, justice, family, children, family law, divorce, abuse, friendly parent, custody, parenting time, visitation, abuser, rape, assault, Roe v. Wade, Roe Overturned, co-parenting, parental rights, child support,

 

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Co-parenting with her rapist - v2

Her nightmare unending, triggering,
pain, PTSD, violence remembered,
co-parenting with her rapist,
the father of her unwanted child,
mandated by the state, the oppressor,
trying to remain the friendly parent.
 
Knowing all too well his manipulation,
the law’s bias, the pushing, backed into a corner,
seeking only to love, to raise her children,
within the strictures, the structure, the laws,
forced to be bound at the hip, co-parenting,
with the Beast at the other table.
 
============

edited May 11, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist-v2.html

May 11, 2022

Co-parenting with her rapist

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/co-parenting-with-her-rapist.html

edited May 11, 2022

Cries of the battered woman – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/cries-of-battered-woman-v4.html

edited September 9, 2015

Cries of the battered woman – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/cries-of-battered-woman-v3_9.html

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/cries-of-battered-woman-v3.html

(editing version 2)

Edited November 25, 2012

Cries of the battered woman – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2012/11/cries-of-battered-woman-v2.html

November 17, 2011

Cries of the battered woman

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/cries-of-battered-woman.html

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.

 

 

Faith, God, love, grace, calling, purpose, power, law, judgment, justice, family, servant, hope, listening, patience, children, family law, divorce, abuse, friendly parent,

 

#Faith #God #love #grace #purpose #power #law #judgment #justice #family #servant

 

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poetry, Faith, God, love, grace, law, judgment, justice, family, children, family law, divorce, abuse, friendly parent, custody, parenting time, visitation, abuser, rape, assault, Roe v. Wade, Roe Overturned, co-parenting, parental rights, child support,

 

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something not right

something not right

something off-putting

something deviant

in their behavior

alarm bells sounding

within my mind;

secrets unspoken

too boisterous laughter

wanting me to leave

our running outside

outside of earshot

of someone watching (aware)

something not right

a feeling repeating;

a concern unspoken

beyond my grasp

================

October 17, 2018

something not right

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 45,660 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

God, Spirit, Christ, faith, love, assault, sex, power, touch, secret, shame, sexual abuse, children, justice, abuse, inappropriate, intimacy, grooming, laughter, watching, predator,

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Family Secrets – Revised – v5

Little and big secrets

silence, … not sharing

words, stories not spoken,

from shame, for protection;

Blank spots, missing pieces

in the telling, retelling

of our family’s history.

Carved off areas, blank spaces,

sometimes casually shared later

as if we knew, … forgetting the secrets,

the silence, the missing words

in real-time, in our living;

Names crossed from address books

pain pushed down, hidden.

Missing memories, omissions,

scraps of childhood, painful,

undiscussed, unspoken

in the fog of history;

Moments casually blurted out

when there was no warning,

forgetting, … the secrets spoken.

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edited September 13, 2018

Family Secrets – Revised – v5

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2018/09/family-secrets-revised-v5.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1040356391414726656

edited November 12, 2017

Family Secrets – Revised – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/family-secrets-revised-v4.html

edited November 12, 2017

behind a mask – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/behind-mask-v2.html

November 11, 2017

behind a mask

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/behind-mask.html

the allegations in the news about

Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore

and a flood of memories and feelings

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edited November 12, 2017

the smell of the smoke – 2 – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/the-smell-of-smoke-2-v4.html

edited June 6, 2015

the smell of the smoke – 2 – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.in/2015/06/the-smell-of-smoke-2-v3.html

(merging edits to original and version 2)

edited May 29, 2015

the scorch of fire – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-scorch-of-fire-v2.html

edited May 23, 2015

the scorch of the fire

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-scorch-of-fire.html

edited May 22, 2015

the smell of the smoke – 2 – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-smell-of-smoke-2-v2.html

May 21, 2015

the smell of the smoke - 2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-smell-of-smoke.html

May 19, 2015 and May 20, 2015

Focus on the Family

https://twitter.com/FocusFamily

https://www.facebook.com/focusonthefamily

http://www.focusonthefamily.com

radio broadcasts

Helping Your Husband Overcome Childhood Sexual Abuse (Part 1 of 2)

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/media/daily-broadcast/helping-your-husband-overcome-childhood-sexual-abuse-pt1

see transcript:

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/media/daily-broadcast/helping-your-husband-overcome-childhood-sexual-abuse-pt1#transcript

Helping Your Husband Overcome Childhood Sexual Abuse (Part 2 of 2)

http://www.focusonthefamily.com/media/daily-broadcast/helping-your-husband-overcome-childhood-sexual-abuse-pt2

With Guests Cecil Murphey and Gary Roe

https://www.facebook.com/gary.roe.79

https://twitter.com/GaryRoeAuthor

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cecil-Murphey/110181285701463

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.

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edited November 12, 2017

an unwanted touch – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/an-unwanted-touch-v2.html

August 20, 2014

an unwanted touch

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2014/08/an-unwanted-touch.html

Devozine for August 18, 2014 to August 24, 2014

www.devozine.org

“+sexual struggles”

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Habakkuk 3:1 (GNT)

devotion: “Sexual Abuse”

national abuse hotline

1-800-656-4673

https://ohl.rainn.org/online/

devotion by Kerri Voegeli

https://www.facebook.com/kerri.voegeli

for August 19, 2014

read August 19, 2014

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edited November 12, 2017

I can understand their anger – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/i-can-understand-their-anger-v2.html

November 18, 2011

I can understand their anger

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/i-can-understand-their-anger.html

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edited November 12, 2017

A box around these memories – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-box-around-these-memories-v2.html

November 18, 2011

A box around these memories

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/box-around-these-memories.html

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edited November 12, 2017

A Walled-off Place – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/a-walled-off-place-v2.html

November 18, 2011

A Walled-off Place

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/walled-off-place.html

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edited November 12, 2017

Under the Veil of Silence – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/under-veil-of-silence-v3.html

November 18, 2011

Under the Veil of Silence – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/under-veil-of-silence-v2.html

November 18, 2011

Under the Veil of Silence

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/under-veil-of-silence.html

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edited November 12, 2017

Open the Sealed Records – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/open-sealed-records-v2.html

November 18, 2011

Open the Sealed Records

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-sealed-records.html

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edited November 12, 2017

On that Altar of Football – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/on-that-altar-of-football-v2.html

November 18, 2011

On that Altar of Football

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/on-that-altar-of-football.html

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November 12, 2017

When we worship false God – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/when-we-worship-false-gods-v2.html

November 18, 2011

We worship false Gods

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/when-we-worship-false-gods.html

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edited November 12, 2017

At the trough of their power – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/at-trough-of-their-power-v2.html

November 18, 2011

At the trough of their power

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/at-trough-of-their-power.html

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

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edited November 12, 2017

For me, a stranger – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/for-me-stranger-v2.html

November 18, 2011

For me, a stranger

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2011/11/you-me-stranger.html

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edited November 12, 2017

Family Secrets – Revised – v4

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2017/11/family-secrets-revised-v4.html

edited January 10, 2016

Family Secrets – Revised – v3

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2016/01/family-secrets-v3.html

(merging edits to original and version 2)

edited September 2, 2015

Family Secrets – Revised – v2

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2015/09/family-secrets-revised-v2.html

6/17/2004

Family Secrets - Revised

http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/family-secrets.html

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, 2017, and 2018. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 47,670 of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.

God, Spirit, Christ, faith, love, child abuse, assault, sex, power, touch, memory, secret, shame, sexual abuse, Roy Moore, Sandusky, law, children, justice, abuse,

#God #faith #love #grace #childabuse #sexual #assault #sex #power #touch #memory #history #mask #hidden # shame #sexualabuse #RoyMoore Sandusky #law #PennState #children #justice #abuse #family #grooming #poetry #MeToo #secret #hidden