Here is a poem that I wrote as I was learning I have DID. Some of my earlier sculptures (as seen on my website at www.mildstonescreations.com) came directly from this poem.

This poem applies primarily to the drawing "Girl with Cat" but really was inspired by my sculpture titled "Abandoned Child/Multiplicity".

Emotion Thought Connected

It was never your fault.
It is time to give up
your weapons against
yourself.

Frozen in time,
A vague, fragmented soul.
You lay deep within,
In pain, abandoned.

Little one, do not be shamed.
Although she went away,
Mommy has always loved you.

Now you curl, fetal position,
Protecting you from daddy's rage.
Still the hurt, in your heart,
Fear not, you will soon stand tall.

The earth shakes, now you topple.
But with courage, self-nurturing,
You can grow stable.

And in loving yourself,
And parenting yourself...

May you find your:

Swayed back straightened.
Foggy mind cleared.
Slumped head raised.
Scarred skin smoothed.
Vague feet grounded.
Divided soul wholed.
Emotion thought connected.

By Caroline A. Martin
© October 2000
Posted with permission

 

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