through_not_around
unhinged embodiment


my feelings are not bad
my feelings are not wrong
my feelings are not just neurochemicals
my feelings are not just the stories i tell myself


my feelings change my physiology
my feelings literally work their way into my body
my feelings wait til later
my feelings will not be ignored



so i sit with myself
and feel what comes up
191207
...
unhinged this is a deep primordial wound


i spent the first twelve days of my life
mostly alone
in an incubator
in a completely different hospital from my mother
who had a bad infection from my
emergency cesarean section


i have always wanted to be left alone
when distressed

attachment_disorder anyone?


i would pull a chair over to the closet
and climb up to pull the photo album out
i would open it to the pictures of me in the incubator in the hospital
and make them tell me over and over
'yes that's you'
'are you sure?'
'yes, i went there every day to feed you. that's you.'

i never wanted to believe
that shriveled red screaming
barely looking humanoid laying in the plastic
with needles and tubes sticking out of it
was me



he says 'say to yourself 'may i be safe''
and immediately the tears fell in a hot salty flood


may i be safe...
i've been screaming since the day i was born


i would always try to wriggle out of his embrace
but he wouldn't let me go
until every last anxious flutter

ceased
200330
...
Raina This pain I must go
This disappointment I must go
This confusion I must go

This I will, This I will

This fear I must go
This longing I must go
This hunger I must go

This I will, This I will

They won't get the best
They don't deserve my best
I rise to challenge, pass the test

... and I will

Now I only draw to me
the keys to be free

Said what I said, and it shall be


This is my will.
200331
...
unhinged step_into_fear 200401
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