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Part 3 - Breaking Free
My second wife did not like my art or poetry; not unless it was cute, whimsical, or extremely Christian-oriented... I stopped writing poetry in 1984, and convinced myself it was because "I no longer needed to"...
The river Denial runs very deep...
In late 1992, I found and started participating in a support group on the Internet. At first, I only read what others wrote, discovering in the process that I was not alone, that others had experienced sexual, physical, and emotional/verbal abuse very similar to my own.
It was a tremendous shock to me. I was not alone.
I learned that I was not abused because I was "bad'' or "deserved it''; that it happened because those who abused me took advantage of their authority, perverted and distorted that authority to fulfill and justify their own sick lusts...
I started writing again, writing more than poetry... for the first time in my life, I wrote down - and then shared with the support group - some of what had been done, what I had experienced; and what I perceived my life to be as an adult. I responded to some writers on the group directly, other responses took the form of allegories or stories, which I've included here in the Poetry section...
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