Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Imagine if ***highly senstive****

Theres a site we go into called imaginif they are child advocates, their job is child protection, today we do a blog called imagine if............
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Imagine if you are remembering nearly 20 years ago, imagine if you are curled up in a tight ball lying half a on a bean bag and half not, imagine if your T is stroking your hair and touching your face and gently telling you this isnt then it is now.
Now imagine if you are a little child your job is simply to hang, to hang from trees from anything to hang for hours and hours, imagine if when your arms are sore and aching you manage to go into a special place, a place from any pain a place where the grass is green, the sky is blue, the sun never fades, the ground is covered in white daises and imagine if you each time you hang can take yourself to this place far far away. Imagine if whilst she moves herself into a safe place someone else comes to take the pain, imagine if they don't have daises and daffodils and blue skies and sun, imagine if all she can feel is the weight in her arms and the ripping of her muscles from the inside out and the fear and the pain, imagine if her eyes are hollow and haunted sad and sagging like her arms. Imagine if she has no voice and cannot speak of her pain but simply can only stare and stare.
Imagine if many years later the body is bigger but the same thing occurs, imagine if this time she dangles from a tree and imagine if while she dangles there she is beaten and beaten and beaten like a pinata, over and over again. Imagine if once she is beaten beyond what is ok she is allowed to drop, her body lying crumbled in the dirt and the sludge , imagine if her body was once again kicked and bashed and her face pushed into the mud. Imagine if lying there the people left her, imagine if she got her tired broken body up and clung to trees and made her way up a hill falling every now again and she reached the top, imagine if she realised the people had left her and she clung to fences and made her way home, imagine if so beaten sometimes she could only crawl sometimes walk. Imagine if she made her way home only to find the door locked, imagine if her mother came to door and said you disgust me strip off, imagine if on a cold night you are hosed down like cattle, and imagine if you are told to dry without a towel. Imagine if once inside you slowly and painfully make your way to your bedroom only to find you have more duties to perform.
Imagine if you are lying on a beanbag and your body feels all beaten up all over again, imagine if you have someone who gently touches your face and strokes your hair and holds you in your pain. Imagine if the tears you cry you have someone who shares them imagine if this person showed you the dignity you deserved and showed it now, imagine if she did what should have been done but all those years later.
But imagine if the people who treated you like this originally were your own parents, imagine if they had left you all beaten and bloodied and bruised imagine if they had done the damage, imagine if now all those years later you rise from that beanbag and slowly take your tired heavy sad body toward a car and you sit in it and aimlessly drive home, imagine if you stop alongside the roadside and step from the car and stand there in the cold biting wind and wonder if there is a chance this gets better. imagine if you toss in your mind the right to be happy, imagine if you dont want to go home, imagine if you are feeling as broken back then as now.
Imagine if someone had found us and cleaned us up, imagine if someone had heard, imagine if someone cried our tears that day, imagine if when we crawled into the shower the next day someone gently wiped away the blood, imagine if we had parents who loved us.

13 comments:

Megan Bayliss said...

Imaginif...your voice stopped this happening to other people. Imaginif...more people listened to JIP's messages.
Imaginif...just one more person stood up and said NO MORE CHILD ABUSE.
Imaginif...there was another person in the world as caring as the JIP team.
Imaginif...there was a world without child abuse.
Imaginif...the door is always open.

kris said...

There are no words that can make what happened right or in any way acceptable ... it was cruel and it was wrong and it was evil.
Today though you were shown that today is different to back then, today you were shown that someone cares.
Not really much I can say, except I feel your pain and so wish it had never happened to you.

shade said...

There is nothing that can make this right or better. But know that you are cared for very much now. If i were able I would be there to hold you and let you know that you matter and are loved.

keepers said...

we imagine you and us sitting across from a table having coffee and talking our hearts out to one another. we pray this all begins to get better for you, each and everyone of you.

peace and blessings

keepers

Marj aka Thriver said...

I can't imagine what it's like to have parents who loved me either. But, I'm glad I have the chance to be the parent who loves my own child. I'm glad we survivors can love and support and validate and care for each other. And I'm glad we have a voice to raise awareness so that maybe, one less child has to endure this madness.

My heart aches for all of you but I'm glad for your strength. Thanks for submitting this to the blog carnival against child abuse. I'm proud to stand with you as a fellow survivor. take gentle care as best you can

Mitch said...

Imagine if - indeed!! A powerful piece - thank you for sharing!! I am so glad you had someone there today to show that it is different now - you have people who care!!

S'onnie said...

hard to read but well done for sharing

Enola said...

imaginif.....I can't. I don't know what all that nice stuff looks like. I do know that my daughter won't ever have to imagine. Neither will any child upon whom I can get my hands, and heart, and love. I WILL make a difference. I will hold them, love them, appreciate them, guide them, teach them to respect themselves.

Together we can all make a difference. Imaginif all of us stood strong together against child abuse?

April_optimist said...

Imagine if all our voices change the world and help each other heal.

I wish none of this had ever been done to you. I wish I could go back in time and make it undone.

Your story tells me how strong you are, how beautiful your spirit that you survived and became someone capable of caring, of sharing, of doing the work it takes to heal.

Thank you for sharing.

Lynn said...

I love you, Jip.

Rodrigo said...

Oi, achei teu blog pelo google tá bem interessante gostei desse post. Quando der dá uma passada pelo meu blog, é sobre camisetas personalizadas, mostra passo a passo como criar uma camiseta personalizada bem maneira. Até mais.

jumpinginpuddles said...

dear megan,
we hope our voice helps someone out there.

dear kris,
yes we were shown someone cares as M says she at least did what should have bene done in the first place and for that we are grateful.

Dear shade,
yep a hug can change a lot

Dear keepers,
we look forward to one day having that cuppa with you;)

Dear marja,
having other survivors walk with us helps so much.

Dear mitch,
soemtimes we need to share the hardest of truths and hope it helps someone out there.

Dear s'onnie,
thanks for having the strength to keep reading even though it was tough.


Dear enola,
like you our children will never know or see the degragation these so called people put us through.

Dear april,
thankyou for your constant encouragement.

Dear lyn,
thankyou for saying that :)

Cheesemeister said...

Being beaten at all is being beaten beyond the point where it is ok. I am so sorry. Nobody should have to endure this abuse.