Showing posts with label repressed memories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repressed memories. Show all posts

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Flash Friday 55: The Closet

first sanctuary,
retreat from chaos
raging daily…
hiding spot
from harmful ones…
seeking,
yet always found…

eventually filled
with meaningless possessions,
meaningful to her…
until day she returned
finding her treasures,
trinkets,
thrown away, cast aside…

harboring secrets,
concealing cache…
magic crimson elixir
no longer enchanting,
replaced by memories..
flashbacks demanding 
their stories be heard. 

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Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Alphabe-Thursday: S is for Surrender

(Warning: the following contains subject matter that may be sensitive to some)


surrendering unto silence
in stillness of night…

slowly stepping
into room
my room 
sanctuary no more
he sits upon my bed
staring at my small frame
I feign sleep
he begins
stroking my hair
shutting, squeezing
eyes ever tighter
using his strength
to subdue me
into submission
tears streaming down
these cheeks
scarcely giving solace
to muffled screams of shame
scolding
blaming
seductress at six
then shushing me
saying that this
shall be our little secret
the little secret
ever since
stretching, swelling, spreading
enslaving me
unto its strangled hold
until now
seeds sowed so long ago
slowly rising
as snowy snippets
in dreams
and hazy memories
buying freedom as I am

...surrendering unto silence
in stillness of night

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Jenny Matlock

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