I am a person. I am a woman Who Are You, who who, who who!I am a person. I am a woman. I am a survivor of child abuse by a then close relative, now rightly dead to me in flesh, but haunting me since that abuse. I did take said rapist to court 30 years after the end of my abuse. I did reveal that abuse to parents who were quick to dismiss it as lies, my only salvation is that my abuser wasn’t exclusively targeting me… a sibling came forward to tell my parents, your unloving, often unfeeling, often excruciatingly hellish monster who refused to do as she was told, was not a liar. I am a survivor of child abuse by a then close relative, now rightly dead to me in flesh, but haunting me since that abuse. I did take said rapist to court 30 years after the end of my abuse. I did reveal that abuse to parents who were quick to dismiss it as lies, my only salvation is that my abuser wasn’t exclusively targeting me… a sibling came forward to tell my parents, your unloving, often unfeeling, often excruciatingly hellish monster who refused to do as she was told, was not a liar

We look for the truth. It is always so close, yet so far. Politics is the business of lies, deception and misdirection, but there is nothing magical about it. The things they don’t want you to know vs the parroting of propaganda. If something is important, look out for the continued echoes of the precise same message. If something is hidden, it is hidden - journalists know more than they tell you. The news cycle is a race for the exclusive thus it fails to truly tell us the real ‘news’ but rather goes for that banner headline, with just about anything being ‘breaking news’ I have long felt that our system is so wrong. We’re fed a diet all our lives about working hard and driving forwards, and whilst much of this is its own reward a sense of achieving a pay cheque, a sense of worth for contributing, what is it we contribute to? It isn’t us, most of our taxation is utterly squandered on the vanity projects, the overseas aid, which whilst absolutely compelling is a drain on resources for this country. Should we just become a what’s that term, ‘third world country’ to atone for the sins of our great-great-great-great-great-Grandfathers? Outrage is what anyone should feel about vile abuses of power. Vile acts, vile theft and stealing. We must remember much to ensure we don’t repeat it. But we don’t and we do. We allow genocides in Africa, Asia, Europe, and even the America’s the pithy statements and disingenuous outrage of our leaders the world over is sadly bordering on theatre. Another monster raises his or her head, and we say those words proclaiming how evil they are whilst sitting by and watching it all unfold, again and again ad- infinitum. The problem with a conspiracy theory is, it is amped up beyond the crime or the conspiracy for effect and misdirection. Trump echoing Roy Cohn’s method of ‘it’s a conspiracy against me by the liberals’ who are liberals? According to Oxford Dictionary a liberal is willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one’s own; open to new ideas.2. relating to or denoting a political and social philosophy that promotes individual rights, civil liberties, democracy and free enterprise. These do not sound like people that would railroad anyone. They sound like people who tolerate, encourage and promote your rights to say whatever the hell you like, and within reason do whatever you like that doesn’t breach the rights of your fellow citizens. We have a duty to be honest, to be fair, to be accepting. I am possibly none of those things deep down, but I am trying. How about you?

Poetry from the broken child

Life lessons learned left, mourned and broken.