Free me from Bondage – 2 – v2

Free me from bondage
to my sin, my shame,
Replace Satan’s lies
with the love of God…
 
Help me to name
Every harm done to me
Help me to wick the power
of sins I have committed…
 
Free me from bondage,
Oh God, my Savior,
Free me to love
with my whole heart…
 
Help me to release
Every chain that binds me
Speak Your truth, Your love,
let it bleed within me, forever…
 
==============
Edited July 28, 2025
Free me from Bondage – 2 – v2
Based on #John8:32, 35-36
re:generation, Step 5, Confess, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 28, 2025
Bittersweet, poison
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/bittersweet-poison.html
Based on #Luke9:23-24
re:generation, Step 6, Repent, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
Edited July 2, 2025
Holding on to Bittersweet – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/holding-on-to-bittersweet-v2.html
Based on #Ephesians4:22
Based on #Proverbs26:12
Based on #1Peter1:18-19
Based on 1 Peter 1:14
Based on #Hebrews13:5-6
Based on #Matthew5:4
re:generation, Step 5, Confess, Week 1, Day 3,
“Acknowledging Sins to Yourself”, page 57 in book
July 28, 2025
I must turn
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-must-turn.html
Based on #Luke9:23-24
re:generation, Step 6, Repent, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 28, 2025
God did not Sin
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/god-did-not-sin.html
death of my paternal grandmother, Jessie Watson Foss, May 1, 1973
July 28, 2025
I could not grieve
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-could-not-grieve.html
July 28, 2025
when I lost her
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/when-i-lost-her.html
July 28, 2025
trying to leave the darkness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/trying-to-leave-darkness.html
July 28, 2025
Heal the damage of my past
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/heal-damage-of-my-past.html
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-lie-of-satan.html
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
 
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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, loss, John 8,
 
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Free me from Bondage - 2

Free me from bondage
to my sin, my shame,
Replace Satan’s lie
with the love of God…
 
Help me to name
the harms done to me
Help me to wick the power
of sins I have committed…
 
Free me from bondage,
oh God, my Savior,
Free me to love
with my whole heart…
 
Help me to release
the chains that bind me
Speak Your truth, Your love,
let it bleed within me…
 
==============
July 28, 2025
Free me from Bondage - 2

Based on #John8:32, 35-36
re:generation, Step 5, Confess, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 28, 2025
God did not Sin
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/god-did-not-sin.html
death of my paternal grandmother, Jessie Watson Foss, May 1, 1973
July 28, 2025
I could not grieve
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-could-not-grieve.html
July 28, 2025
when I lost her
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/when-i-lost-her.html
July 28, 2025
trying to leave the darkness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/trying-to-leave-darkness.html
July 28, 2025
Heal the damage of my past
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/heal-damage-of-my-past.html
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-lie-of-satan.html
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
 
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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, loss, John 8,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault #loss

God did not Sin

God did not betray me
God did not sin against me
God did not abandon me,
but I was still angry at Him…
 
Light was taken from my life
a piece of the joy within me
another stone added to the pack
the pain I carry with me…
 
I didn’t begin to know
how to process the pain within me
secrets in our family’s DNA,
never far below the surface…
 
God did not leave me
God did not forsake me
God always loved me
even when I cursed His name…
 
Light was taken from me
another angel in heaven
how I wish I had known you
longer in this life…
 
==============
July 28, 2025
God did not Sin
 
death of my paternal grandmother, Jessie Watson Foss, May 1, 1973
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
re:generation, Step 5, Confess, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 28, 2025
I could not grieve
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-could-not-grieve.html
July 28, 2025
when I lost her
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/when-i-lost-her.html
July 28, 2025
trying to leave the darkness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/trying-to-leave-darkness.html
July 28, 2025
Heal the damage of my past
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/heal-damage-of-my-past.html
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-lie-of-satan.html
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
 
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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, loss,

#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault #loss

I could not grieve

sitting, my back erect,
gravity of that moment,
sitting apart with them,
the other firstborns…
 
I felt honor, responsibility,
Weight of that moment,
But I could not process
Emotions washing o’er me…
 
I could not grieve,
my feelings tamped down,
sitting apart with them,
the other firstborns…
 
listening to her pastor’s words,
her Scottish brogue lilting,
love pouring out for her
but my tears dry within me…
 
==============
July 28, 2025
I could not grieve
 
death of my paternal grandmother, Jessie Watson Foss, May 1, 1973
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement
re:generation, Step 5, Confess, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 28, 2025
when I lost her
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/when-i-lost-her.html
July 28, 2025
trying to leave the darkness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/trying-to-leave-darkness.html
July 28, 2025
Heal the damage of my past
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/heal-damage-of-my-past.html
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-lie-of-satan.html
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
 
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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, loss,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault #loss

when I lost her

my soul cried out in pain
but I didn’t know how to process
the deep ache within me,
on that day we shared…
 
May Day baskets different,
a solemn reminder offered,
a tradition for sixty years
until you too were taken from me…
 
I became angry with God
my joy turned to sorrow,
what I lost her to the darkness,
hurled into the abyss…
 
My first love, my joy,
turned to pain within me,
how I hated You, oh God,
for taking Jessie from me…
 
==============
July 28, 2025
when I lost her

death of my paternal grandmother, Jessie Watson Foss, May 1, 1973
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement
re:generation, Step 5, Confess, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 28, 2025
trying to leave the darkness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/trying-to-leave-darkness.html
July 28, 2025
Heal the damage of my past
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/heal-damage-of-my-past.html
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-lie-of-satan.html
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
 
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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, loss,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault #loss

trying to leave the darkness

wandering in darkness
a blind man crashing into furniture
held within walls, chains,
of unspoken guilt and shame…
not believing the promise of scripture
trying to heal on my own…
 
ancient secrets, hidden shame,
of what was done against me
believing the lie of Satan
that I was guilty, alone…
that God would not protect me,
trying to heal on my own…
 
how I long to walk in the light
to feel Your arm around me,
but I listened to Satan’s whisper,
a lie fifty-two years ago…
please come to me Spirit,
I cannot heal on my own…
 
==============
July 28, 2025
trying to leave the darkness
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/trying-to-leave-darkness.html
Based on #1John1:5-9
re:generation, Step 5, Confess, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 28, 2025
Heal the damage of my past
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/heal-damage-of-my-past.html
Based on #John10:10
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement, page 135”
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-lie-of-satan.html
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to Satan – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-satan-v2.html
Edited July 27, 2025
Satan whispered a lie – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/satan-whispered-lie-v2.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, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, 1 John 1,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault

Heal the damage of my past

Heal the damage of my past
the ache buried within me
Sooth my broken heart
that I would know You fully…
 
Apply Your healing hand
for You are the Master Physician,
Bury Your Word within me
that I would feel Your love…
 
Heal the damage of my past
replace pain with Your promise
Gift me abundant life,
with joy in this moment…
 
==============
July 28, 2025
Heal the damage of my past
 
Based on #John10:10
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement, page 135”
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-lie-of-satan.html
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to Satan – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-satan-v2.html
Edited July 27, 2025
Satan whispered a lie – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/satan-whispered-lie-v2.html
Edited July 27, 2025
shame for a crime – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/shame-for-crime-v2_27.html
July 27, 2025
my body reacted – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-body-reacted-v2.html
August 22, 2024
Family Secrets – Revised – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/family-secrets-revised-v6.html
July 21, 2025
sin opened a door
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/sin-opened-door.html
July 21, 2025
It was always Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-was-always-satan.html
Based on #Psalm 22:1
July 21, 2025
one pivotal moment
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-pivotal-moment.html
July 21, 2025
lost, damaged, stolen
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/lost-damaged-stolen.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, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, John 10,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault

I listened to the lie of Satan

I felt pain in losing her,
feeling alone, abandoned,
wandering in my world…
I did not know what to do,
only questions with no answers…
 
He touched me there
unwanted, unexpected,
a shock radiated through me…
my body reacted, my flesh,
involuntary, unplanned…
 
I felt revulsion, terror, panic,
shame upon me, a blanket,
when my body reacted…
I had to run away,
as fast as I could…
 
I sat in my room, in terror,
feeling alone, abandoned,
I became mute, burying my pain…
I could never speak of that moment
for twenty-five long years…
 
I felt shame, pain, guilt,
God’s judgment was upon me
for a sin I never committed…
I believed in the lie of the Devil,
that I was the one at fault…
 
I listened to Satan, my flesh,
When my body reacted
feeling alone, abandoned…
I was angry at God already,
for my pain, my loss of her….
 
==============
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to the lie of Satan
 
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
Edited July 28, 2025
I listened to Satan – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-satan-v2.html
Edited July 27, 2025
Satan whispered a lie – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/satan-whispered-lie-v2.html
Edited July 27, 2025
shame for a crime – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/shame-for-crime-v2_27.html
July 27, 2025
my body reacted – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-body-reacted-v2.html
August 22, 2024
Family Secrets – Revised – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/family-secrets-revised-v6.html
July 1, 2004
Family Secrets
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/family-secrets.html
July 21, 2025
sin opened a door
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/sin-opened-door.html
July 21, 2025
It was always Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-was-always-satan.html
Based on #Psalm 22:1
July 21, 2025
one pivotal moment
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-pivotal-moment.html
July 21, 2025
lost, damaged, stolen
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/lost-damaged-stolen.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, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, repentance, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, Psalm 51,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault

I listened to Satan – v2

In the pain of my losing her,
feeling alone, abandoned,
wandering in my world
not knowing what to do…
 
He touched me there
unwanted, unexpected,
my body reacted, my flesh,
involuntary, unplanned…
 
I feel revulsion, terror,
when my body reacted,
I had to run away,
as fast as I could…
 
I sat in my room, in terror,
feeling alone, abandoned,
I could never speak of that moment
for twenty-five long years…
 
I felt shame, pain, guilt,
for a sin I never committed
I believed in the lie of the Devil,
that I was at fault…
 
I listened to Satan, my flesh,
feeling alone, abandoned,
for I was angry at God already,
for my pain, my loss of her….
 
==============
July 28, 2025
I listened to Satan – v2
 
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
Edited July 27, 2025
Satan whispered a lie – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/satan-whispered-lie-v2.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
Edited July 27, 2025
shame for a crime – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/shame-for-crime-v2_27.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 27, 2025
my body reacted – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-body-reacted-v2.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
&
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
August 22, 2024
Family Secrets – Revised – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/family-secrets-revised-v6.html
July 1, 2004
Family Secrets
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/family-secrets.html
July 21, 2025
sin opened a door
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/sin-opened-door.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134
July 21, 2025
It was always Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-was-always-satan.html
Based on #Psalm 22:1
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134
July 21, 2025
one pivotal moment
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-pivotal-moment.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134, Question 4.
July 21, 2025
lost, damaged, stolen
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/lost-damaged-stolen.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134, Question 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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, repentance, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, Psalm 51,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault

#Satan whispered a lie – v2 #shame #Sin #sexualassault

My body betrayed me,
an involuntary action,
in that field that morning
my world was ripped asunder
by a terrible lie, not true…
 
Satan whispered a lie
that poured into my spirit
that I was guilty, shameful,
that how I felt, my sin,
was greater than God…
 
My flesh reacted,
an involuntary action,
but I listened to Satan,
I believed His awful lie
that it was all my fault…
 
I already felt abandoned,
after the loss of Jessie, after bullying,
lost in my pain before that moment,
Satan saw an opportunity,
to separate me from God…
 
Satan whispered a lie
a cancer that dwelt within me,
that my other sin condemned me,
that my shame was deserved
bearing that awful cost…
 
I did not share with anyone
pain, the lies of that moment,
not for twenty-five years,
in silence, in secret
holding what wasn’t mine…
 
==============
Edited July 27, 2025
Satan whispered a lie – v2
 
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
Edited July 27, 2025
shame for a crime – v3
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/shame-for-crime-v2_27.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 27, 2025
I listened to Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-satan.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 27, 2025
my body reacted – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-body-reacted-v2.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
&
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
August 22, 2024
Family Secrets – Revised – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/family-secrets-revised-v6.html
July 1, 2004
Family Secrets
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/family-secrets.html
July 21, 2025
sin opened a door
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/sin-opened-door.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134
July 21, 2025
It was always Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-was-always-satan.html
Based on #Psalm 22:1
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134
July 21, 2025
one pivotal moment
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-pivotal-moment.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134, Question 4.
July 21, 2025
lost, damaged, stolen
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/lost-damaged-stolen.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134, Question 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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, repentance, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, Psalm 51,
 
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shame for a crime – v3

Shame for a crime,
sin I never committed,
hiding in secret, in silence,
when it wasn’t mine to own…
 
Pain overwhelming,
an ache deep within me,
pain never exposed, open wounds,
hurt never allowed to heal…
 
Sins I committed,
didn’t justify the shame,
for their sin that happened
in that cluttered field that day…
 
Shame for a crime,
sin I never committed,
hiding in secret, in silence,
when it wasn’t mine to own…
 
Ache of abandonment,
not feeling You with me
not feeling protected, loved,
by You, Almighty God…
 
My young mind couldn’t
comprehend the truth
the shame that I carried
wasn’t mine to own…
 
Shame for a crime,
sin I never committed,
hiding in secret, in silence,
when it wasn’t mine to own…
 
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Edited July 27, 2025
shame for a crime – v3
 
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 27, 2025
Satan whispered a lie
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/satan-whispered-lie.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 27, 2025
I listened to Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/i-listened-to-satan.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
Edited July 27, 2025
shame for a crime
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/shame-for-crime-v2.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
July 27, 2025
my body reacted – v2
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/my-body-reacted-v2.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”
&
3/31/01, in the morning,
Assault (written but never posted)
about the sexual assault against me in the Summer of 1973 in Westfield, MA
August 22, 2024
Family Secrets – Revised – v6
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/08/family-secrets-revised-v6.html
July 1, 2004
Family Secrets
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/07/family-secrets.html
July 21, 2025
sin opened a door
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/sin-opened-door.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134
July 21, 2025
It was always Satan
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/it-was-always-satan.html
Based on #Psalm 22:1
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134
July 21, 2025
one pivotal moment
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/one-pivotal-moment.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134, Question 4.
July 21, 2025
lost, damaged, stolen
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2025/07/lost-damaged-stolen.html
re:generation, Step 4, Inventory, Appendix C, “Abuse Supplement”, page 134, Question 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, and 2025. 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, poem, God, Christ, Spirit, love, grace, regeneration, sin, shame, inventory, confession, prayer, repentance, sexual sin, adultery, sexual assault, Me Too, Psalm 51,
 
#poetry #poem #God #sin #shame #sexualassault #MeToo #pain #guilt #assault