Oh Nipper - I just feel that your latest poem is a marker of how you have shifted in the last month or so.  You must have been working really hard within your self.  Well working hard never really feels like adequate acknowledgment because it is painful and scary too - not just hard work.

Forgive me if you will - but I had a small moment of celebration when I read the second last verse - it feels like you are now accepting that you were not the one who caused your pain.  There was a monster in your life and he should have been your protector and sheild from harm.

love you lots  UM xx

Hi NIpper

You are absolutely right - it shouldn't hurt ot be a kid.  Want to shout it from the tops of high buildings, want to shout it through a megaphone, want it to be newpaper headlines every day, want child protection services to adopt it and deliver on it. 

It shouldn't hurt ot be a kid.  Well said!   My heart leapt when I read  your poem - first I've read that didn't end in a sense of despair.  That journey was more than a vacation, I think.

Lots of love, Harmony