Between The Wings of A Blackbird/News

I WAS ASKED TO CREATE A IMAGE FOR A SPECIAL CAUSE. THE NIGHTMARE OF SEXUAL ABUSE. WHEN ASKED BY THE GROUP JULIE VALENTINE CENTER TO CREATE A IMAGE DEALING WITH HEALING FROM SEXUAL TRAUMA THEY DID NOT KNOW I MYSELF WAS SEXUAL ABUSED AS A YOUNG CHILD BY ANOTHER YOUNG CHILD, NO NOT A ADULT BUT THE TRAUMA WAS THERE ANYWAY AND I CARRIED IT AROUND FOR DECADES. FINALLY I WAS ABLE TO OPEN UP TO MY FATHER AND TELL HIM ABOUT THIS DARK WEIGHT I HAVE CARRIED AROUND AND THE MENTAL ANGUSH IT PUT ON ME WAS SO HARD IT ROBBED ME FROM DAYS UPON DAYS, YEARS UPON YEARS OF ANY BRIGHTNESS THAT I COULD SEE OR FEEL BUT ONCE RELEASED THE HEALING BEGAN THE WOUNDS BEGAN TO GROW INWARD INSTEAD.

SO I KNEW WHEN ASKED TO BE APART OF THIS SPECIAL EVENT, MY IMAGE OF HEALING CAME FROM ALOT OF PAIN AND HEALING IS NOT ALWAYS A PRETTY FAIRY TALE OF RAINBOWS BUT WITH RAW EMOTIONAL PURGING AND FIRST I KNEW I WANTED SOME LINENS IN THE IMAGE EACH IMAGE SYMBOLIZES HOW WE ARE BORN CLEAN AND PURE BUT THINGS HAPPEN AND THOSE LINENS BECOME STAINED SCREAMS OF PAIN AS THEY HANG ON A LINE OF A METAL WIRE SYMBOLIZING A LIFE LINE AND THE CLEAN LINENS ARE NOT SO CLEAN ANYMORE BUT THEY STILL HANG AND HEALING CAN TAKE PLACE BUT WE HAVE TO PUT THEM UP AND OUT IF WE ARE TO OVERCOME THIS TRAUMA AND NO ITS NOT ALWAYS A EASY THING THAT HAS TO HAPPEN BUT IN THE END THE LINENS BECOME OUR FLAGS OF FORGIVENESS-FORGIVENESS FOR OURSELVES FOR WE ARE NOT TO BLAME AND WE DONT HAVE TO CARRY THE SAME ANYMORE. WE MUST NOW HEAL.

TALON GRACE.