I.

Reawakening

When we are hurt as children, we can quickly learn to see ourselves as broken, handicapped, or defective in some essential way.

As we remember, with excruciating precision
In the Violations and Injustices
That Devastated Our Tender Hearts,

We Come to View Our Childhood
As a Terrible,
Painful
Mistake.

At times, the Enormity of Our Child Hood Sorrow....
Can Fill Us With a Sense of
Hopelessness,
Disappointment,
and Despair.

(from W.T. Muller, adapted)