by Tom M. | Sep 15, 2022 | ACA And The Arts, ComLine
To my innocent inner child:I am you, from your future.I see you in an old photograph,from sixty years ago. You are four years old.You see daddy-Monster behind the camera.I see the frozen terror and distrust on your face.You have every reason to be scared. I feel the...
by Michell B.C. | Sep 1, 2022 | ACA And The Arts, ComLine
Hola Mijita,You are so beautiful and brave and worthy.The love that shines through your smile and in your eyesRadiates through your heart, and I see you! From this day forward, I will love and protect you allthrough every age, every feeling, thought and action....
by Rosalie M. | Sep 1, 2022 | ACA And The Arts, ComLine
When you made decisions for me under the guise of taking care of me; you were actually controlling me. When you used the ubiquitous “we” and spoke for both of us because you thought of us as one; you were actually discounting me. When you decided all the cars and...
by Veronica A. | Sep 1, 2022 | ACA And The Arts, ComLine
A void opens up and I’m spinning again,This is fine, I come here to be alone.I want anything but this,But at least no one can hurt me here. The emptiness scoops me up and welcomes me home.Belonging to the Nothingness seems appropriateFor a girl who learned to be seen...
by Gretchen W. | Sep 1, 2022 | ACA And The Arts, ComLine
I knew I didn’t want to be like my mother.She rubbed off on me anyway. I knew my Dad was a drunk who abused me and I was scared of him.I hoped that would change but it didn’t. I knew I didn’t really want to marry my first husband.I did it because I didn’t know it was...
