telling without telling

we don’t mean to be bad. we been trying to not talk about the bad stuff so much. it just hurts and makes us sad and we can’t stop thinking and remembering that memory that got showed to Julie. i don’t think it got told or showed to everybody in here but i know some peoples finded out about it cuz things go through the grapevine. like Julie hears and learns stuff from L.J. that she wouldn’t have if she didn’t have a connection to L.J. and so and so knows this part or that piece and it just passes through. and I think now that memory is in our shared fact space and that makes it even more ickier and sadder too cuz we don’t want it in the fact place and the shared place. it’s not supposed to be there. it’s supposed to be hidden and secret and not seen and not told and not true and not fact and not real.

we got this memory that more than one of us is thinking and knowing about and really the brain is just making it flash over and over like a record player with a video on it instead of sound on it. cuz there is no sound in the memory that we got. not yet at least. we don’t usually have any shared sound for anything anyway. it gets lost or taken away someplace inside. and it feels like the brain is trying to make us do something with this stupid memory with the dad man and it is all terrible and yucky and horrible and we’re making a big deal over it and need to stop talking about it. but we are bad and can’t cuz we got to say something even if we’re still too scared to write it and some inside keeping us from writing it here. we almost falling asleep cuz they been trying to make us sleep and not tell and we be fighting them but we don’t wanna make them mad by telling now. and the bigs wrote a post about Noah and stuff that not posted yet cuz they wanted to think of a good title but i don’t think they are going to do that very good in thinking of one. i think they are going to have to give a dumb title like i’m going to give this post a dumb title.

and some inside keep screaming and saying no can write until we tell our love story and stuff and so we need to sit and write that but it gets all big and huge of a story cuz there is so much to tell and so then some say just write it in little bits with part 1, 2, 3 or something like that but then others say no, only can do that if we write it all at once or close to all at once and separate the posts so that people might read it instead of it being one huge long post versus 3 small medium posts. and well the talking and debating and opinions go on and on. that’s only some of them. and that’s how it be for so many things. and i’m tired.

and we can’t stop thinking and remembering and flashing on that memory and we try to keep pushing it away or distracting or blanking the mind or something but something else keeps tugging and making us go look at it and it is just so scary to look at and to feel anything about it. i think someone is trying to get us to feel and process it or whatever that stuff is called cuz they are trying to do something therapy or something on it with us and i can tell. just something i can feel and remember the same feeling before when we get a bad memory and it all upsetting and hard to believe and hard to remember and want to throw up and all those things that happen.

and the mother lady teld told Julie about the father man and stuff and she learned about bad mean and kinda evil stuff he do to the mom and it make it even more real to the ones inside who don’t like to believe the dad man did things to us and when we learned about that other stuff it ain’t that hard to stretch it that he would be a bad dad man who would hurt his daughter bad and icky ways. so the ones who have hard time believing bad stuff about the dad man are thinking maybe it is more true than they did before cuz of what the mother lady told and we know it is true cuz we just know she telling it pretty much or like it was. well the stuff she said anyway. there’s stuff unsaid about growing up with her and the family and stuff but stuff between her and the father man is true we think and not much missing. at least not for the stuff she said. the times she was telling us about.

so we got to go and sleep or something to get energy to do stuff and fight the ones who put us to sleep cuz i don’t know why they do it. to help i guess. and maybe we just make it up that there are ones inside who put us to sleep and it just something that automatically happens and it is easier to think we are fighting people inside doing it to us instead of some physical or other crazy unknown psychological reason that we can’t even fight. it still feels like we’re fighting something that gots peoples behind it. at least some of it. maybe not all of the reasons.

some us, some others, and some other others kinda sorta, hard to say who all here

peeking out

we’re still here.  we thought we’d write today or within the past few days. we haven’t.  we think we’ll write soon, but we don’t know.  we want to write. we think of writing, but it just doesn’t happen.  it sits inside, hides, whatever.  it waits.

so we’re just saying we’re still alive.  doing okay i guess and getting by, and trying to get a grip on everything as usual.  same old struggles really just with some more life stuff and flashback stuff and various other things.  trying to figure out the whole concept of balancing life.  we are determined to figure it out.  i’m sorry we just haven’t been around lately at all to write or share things.  we’ve needed to do it, but we just haven’t been here, and haven’t been able to write when we are around to do so.  we’ve had our 2nd therapy session today after weeks upon weeks of no therapy.  it went okay.  lots of stuff to write about from both of them.  we still have our love story to write about.  we have many other things to write and process.  yadda yadda. this is dumb to even write about the things we need to write about.

just trying to get the ball moving, even if it is an inch in front of us instead of moving it a foot or more away (in front of) from us.

julies, kind of

Three Poems

For a long time, we’ve thought about posting our poems on our journal. We’ve hesitated for a number of reasons. Sometimes there are poems written here by others inside spontaneously as part of free-flowing words and their words are poetic or seem to be similar to poems and in that fashion. Their styles are much different than the ones below. I believe that there are two different styles of writing below, but we have many other poems with other styles and stuff.

These poems are being shared now because they apply to the father specifically about our abuse by him. Perhaps after sharing these, we can tackle part three of what we’re trying to write.

Confusion

I see her
alone
in a room
at a small
pink table.
The laughing
children, “No
I’m not!
I want to play too!”
Her face expresses
the longing
of voicing
similar words
at home,
where silence
is her playmate.

She hears
an adult voice-
“You’re fat mother
is lazy. She can’t
do anything right.”
Looking up she sees
her mother
in the hall
walk by as he
tells her
“I love you darling.
Do what I say.”

Confusion crawls out
of her crayons
onto her picture
as disfigured
red people, without bodies,
only legs, some missing
hands, and straight
mouths with bulging
eyes.

Desperately trying to understand
what she must do
in order for her daddy
to love
her mommy.

Copyright, JAGA Harmony, May 4, 1993 (17 years old)

A Childhood Lost…

I feel as though my body
has been burned.
A door opens,
I’m standing in boiling water,
My heart is in flames.
A figure from Hell
seals the door.
His sharp flaming
hands reach out
and scorch my already charred body.
A scream shrills
inside my head
and travels to my toes-
My throat closes-
Containing the voice
inside me that screams
“NO!”

Frozen in silence
I separate
from my body-watching
Him abuse me.
Sitting upright on my bed
He behind me-
His fingers touching my skin;
I feel as though I’m
his object of lust.
Suddenly he pushes
me downward, his face
breathing of alcohol
and deceit. He brandishes
his kiss upon my lips-leaving
his mark on me for life.
I struggle to get away,
Tears stream down my face,
Just hoping he sees
the red light
of my heart he destroyed
with Fire.

Finally he ends
his selfish act,
Reminding me that good girls
keep secrets. Obediently I
assure him as guilt spreads
throughout my body
like a visible disease. He
slowly leaves my room,
smiles,
and seals
my door, my memory-
His power and control over me
Causing the event
To be forgotten.

And as time continues,
My life becomes
A bigger and stronger
Ferris Wheel.

Copyright, JAGA Harmony, February 7, 1993 (17 years old)

My Body-His Body

My feet scorched
by fiery fear
unable to run.

My legs paralyzed
from years of yanks
and struggles.

My thighs drowned
in his leper germs,
forever dead.

My privates scarcely
knowing the meaning
of private and sacred.

My stomach caved inward
from starvation
of non-abusive fatherly love.

My breasts bruised
and stained from sinful
hands and tainted kisses.

My hands crippled
by piercing threats
because they desired
to reach out for help.

My arms tied and twisted
in knots of agony
and anguish too wounded
to fly free.

My throat severed
from the first time,
that first cry out.
Invisible scars
containing shrilling screams
and No, DADDY, NO!

My face,
seemingly untouched,
is as broken
and shattered like
my mind.
For deep within,
and just under the surface,
the many faces
live their fate.

He helped create
my body,
and I was born.

He helped create
a body
I later learned I owned
by not just “me,” but
every alter personality
and fragmented, sliver piece of me.

Copyright, JAGA Harmony, September 18, 2000 (25 years old)